Chapter 247
The production team decided to wait and see what the next day would bring. After all, even the weather station couldn't predict the weather during the Arctic thunderstorm season. Unexpectedly, the next day brought an unexpected surprise. At first, no one noticed. They had just woken up and stood at the tent door, wondering if they'd ask the director for food. Their food was already gone. After discussing it, they were about to send a few representatives to negotiate with the director when they saw a skinny polar bear passing by, heading towards the beach. Everyone stopped.
During the recent thunderstorm season, polar bears are very hungry and they don't want to become food.
"Brother, will it go into the sea on a rainy day?" Lin Zhinan asked worriedly. With such strong wind and waves, will it be blown away?
Chu Huaiqin shook his head, he didn't know either.
The polar bear soon reached the shore. The sea water was blown up by the wind, which was very scary. It stopped there, lowered its head and seemed to be eating something. The distance was too far and I couldn't see it clearly.
At first, everyone thought it was a one-off incident. But a dozen minutes later, two more polar bears, each as thin as a bamboo, ran by and reached the shore. The earlier bears, seemingly unprepared for them, issued warning calls, but neither retreated. Finally, due to the disparity in strength, they were forced to give in. The three bears, happily enjoying their meal, began to fight.
"Is there food?" Xia Entang asked curiously.
"It's quite possible." Chu Huaiqin had an idea, but he didn't know if it was true.
"What are you talking about? Speak English, speak English, I understand," Paige muttered. Seeing Chu Huaiqin looking over, she said, "Maybe it's eating fish."
"Let's go and take a look?" Ali suggested. He thought it was a bit strange, so he decided to go and take a look.
"Let's go check it out!" Chu Huaiqin returned to the tent to get his raincoat. Seeing this, Xia Entang put on his own. Together with Ali, the fun-loving Paige, and the little monk, the five of them went out to see what was going on. Liman and Alexander went to ask the director for food.
The thunder continued to roar and the rain continued to fall. The ground had softened after several days of rain, and the ground was completely muddy when they stepped on it. The five of them walked cautiously, ready to run back at any time. When they were about twenty meters away from the polar bears, the one with better eyesight had already spotted them...
Fish, fish, and more fish. The ground is covered with fish.
"Why are there so many fish? Angels, are there angels? Did angels give us the fish?" Paige was incredulous. "No, no, it's not angels calling us, it's demons. Could it be a warning? A tsunami?"
"Really? Really?" The little monk had been with them for a long time and could understand a few foreign words. Peppa's words scared him.
The audience in the live broadcast room was also shocked.
"Why are there so many fish on the ground? I have a question. Is what Paige said true?"
"No way, that's too scary, how is it possible?"
"Yeah, it's a once-in-a-century situation."
"What are you talking about? Why don't you understand? There are fish, go pick them up first."
"You're crazy, picking it up, run for your life."
"God, run, it's a tsunami."
"It's absolutely abnormal. Why are there fish coming ashore? Oh my God, get out quickly!"
"Ahhh, have the directors gone crazy? Why are they still so calm? Bro, run!"
"It must have been blown up by the wind!" Chu Huaiqin looked at Ali. He knew the situation in the Arctic better than he did.
"Well, in the Arctic, this situation does occur during the thunderstorm season." Ali had guessed it before. According to the information he knew, during the thunderstorm season, polar bears cannot go out to sea to fish, and some polar bears rely on these few fish to survive this transition period.
"Then let's go back!" Xia En stood in the wind to block the wind for Chu Huaiqin. It was too cold here.
"Don't you want to pick up a few?" After hearing what Chu Huaiqin and Ali said, Paige was no longer afraid and started to think about fishing.
"Yes, yes, pick up a few." The little monk nodded repeatedly, like a supporting actor.
"Don't compete with polar bears for food." Xia En said lightly.
The others smiled and turned to leave. In the distance, another polar bear came over, staggering a little, but still running hard.
The five people were trying to avoid the one walking sideways, but Chu Huaiqin recognized him first.
Chu Huaiqin: "It's a little cutie."
The little cutie has become extremely thin. It is obvious that it will grow into an adult bear this summer, but now its body still looks thin and skinny, like a minor, and looks very pitiful.
"That's great, little cutie, you're okay." Peppa jumped for joy.
"Hmm, hmm, hmm!" The little monk could only nod.
"Its mother didn't follow." Xia En said.
Chu Huaiqin nodded without answering, watching the little cutie run to the beach. Sure enough, there was still some distance before the polar bears who were fighting in a group turned around and looked at the little cutie in unison, making low warning sounds in their throats.
"Damn it! They're trying to bully the little cutie!" Peppa Pig's love for the young immediately kicked in, and she yelled at the three adult polar bears, "You can't bully it!"
Would the little cutie give up? Apparently not. It didn't stop, but instead grew alert, making sharp, whimpering sounds as it slowly moved toward the shore. Several adult polar bears, unwilling to give up their food, pounced on the little cutie as it approached.
"Ahh, one against three, that's too much, they are bullying the little cutie." Peppa yelled.
"We have to help." The little monk offered help.
The two men quickly picked up stones from the ground and threw them at the bear madly. The remaining three people had no time to stop them. However, due to the headwind, most of the stones were blown off course by the strong wind. The remaining few were very accurate and hit the bear directly on the head.
“Ahhh!”
The struck polar bear turned and barked at the five men. Cutie, now without an opponent, felt a slight reprieve from being pinned down and bitten. He immediately bit a bear and pushed it over, sprinting towards shore, where he grabbed another one. But three adult polar bears couldn't possibly allow Cutie, a mere adult, to escape. They immediately blocked his path, forgetting he had help. Stones rained down from behind, startling the three bears and turning their heads to yell at the monk. Cutie, however, showed no signs of fighting. Seizing the opportunity, he suddenly broke free and fled, leaving a trail of blood on the ground.
The little monk and Peppa Pig completely angered the three adult bears. They didn't care about the fish on the ground and bared their teeth at the five people.
The little monk and Peppa Pig looked at each other, turned around and ran away.
The remaining three looked at each other.
However, the little monk and Peppa Pig did not run back to the tent, but followed the route of the little cutie. Chu Huaiqin and the others saw it when they turned around to retreat.
"I'll go after him." Xia Entang said this and ran after him.
The three bears were still howling at Chu Huaiqin and Ali, but perhaps because they were afraid of the group of directors following them, they did not dare to move forward. They only growled and warned Chu Huaiqin and the others.
"Excuse me." Chu Huaiqin bowed to the three bears, "Please continue."
Step by step, slowly, he retreated backwards until he reached a safe distance. Chu Huaiqin turned his back on the bears and walked away. When he was about to reach the tent, he turned around and saw that the three polar bears had stopped fighting and were quickly eating the fish on the ground. Perhaps they realized that if they didn't eat it, other bears would come and snatch it away.
The little monk and Peppa went to chase the little cutie but failed to catch up. Instead, they were caught by Xia Entropy. The little monk was shocked. Peppa was not one of their family members, so Xia Entropy ignored him. This made Peppa feel uneasy all the way, fearing that Xia Entropy would suddenly do something.
He saw the little monk being beaten so hard that tears came out. How painful it must be!
Paige was worried all the way and finally relaxed when she returned to the camp.
In the live broadcast room, I saw that neither of them could find the little cutie, and I felt worried and sad.
"There's so much blood on the ground. What will happen to the little cutie?"
"Will he die? Did he get bitten on the neck?"
"God, please don't bite the artery!"
"Are the animal's arteries there, too?"
"I don't know, but animals always bite there when they fight. There must be a reason."
"Ahhh, director team, save the animals, save the animals, do you understand, do you understand?"
"I'm so worried. What should I do? My little cutie has to be okay!"
The rain stopped after three days, and they didn't see the cutie again during those three days. Peppa and the little monk were so worried that they lost weight. Little did they know that the cutie had changed his schedule and would come to the beach in the late morning to look for fish. The director team breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the cutie appear. They knocked him down that night and treated the wound on his neck. Fortunately, the bite wasn't deep enough, otherwise the cutie wouldn't be able to stand there. For the next few nights, the cutie came over at night. Watching him struggle in the surging seawater in the live studio, our hearts ached, and we couldn't wait to go to the market and get him a large basket of fish to choose from.
Regarding the cute little mother bear shadow, some people say that she may be dead.
The little cutie became an orphan.
The rain stopped, and there was a sense of awakening. Flowers blossomed beautifully, butterflies fluttered, bees gathered nectar, the grass grew lush, and the trees, washed clean for days, became brighter. Polar bears seemed to have made this their home, staying put, awaiting the return of winter and the arrival of day and night. They rolled in the grass, picking and eating small wild fruits. Arctic foxes also emerged, along with lemmings and all sorts of other small animals.
Aside from the distressing sight of the emaciated polar bear, everything else seemed cheerful. However, the monk and Peppa Pig were not at all happy. Despite the rain, they had been searching for the little cutie, but to no avail. They sat at the entrance of the tent, gazing out and sighing.
The little monk said: "Look at that bear, that big guy, he thinks his feet are dirty and he even washes them. I can't even find my little cutie."
Peppa Pig: "That's right, that's right. If it weren't for the big guys bullying the little cutie, how could the little cutie disappear?"
Young monk: “That’s right.”
Paige: “Yes.”
Live broadcast room: You guys are not allowed to discriminate based on age?
The rain stopped, and except for today, this wilderness survival mission will end tomorrow. The production crew was very ruthless, cold-blooded, and unreasonable and refused to provide food, so in the last two days, they had to take a small boat to go fishing again.
Having skipped breakfast, everyone was ravenous and weak, and as they headed toward the beach, they had to keep an eye out for polar bears. Three teams rowed out in their small boats, and after lowering their nets, they lay in the boats, gazing at the sky, feeling a sense of reluctance to leave.
Since we hadn't had breakfast, we cast a net and each group got about ten fish. We hurried back to the camp because we were so hungry.
When the boat was still some distance away from the coast, a lot of water splashed in front of it suddenly, and the figure of a polar bear was clearly visible. Just when everyone thought that the polar bear was snatching food, unexpectedly, a white and smooth fish, no, not a fish, but a beluga whale, cried "嘤嘤", jumped up, and plunged into the water again.
After the thunderstorm season, there is still a window period before winter. This is the time when various animals are the hungriest. It is not uncommon for polar bears to hunt beluga whales, but this is the first time they have faced it directly, and the shock shocked everyone.
Both are strong swimmers, tearing and slugging each other underwater, a battle to see who will exhaust their strength first. However, the current situation is not ideal for the polar bear. Global warming is causing the Arctic ice to melt earlier and later, prolonging its hunger. Surviving until the next winter is considered a success. Now, having finally spotted a beluga whale in shallow waters, it's a feast. The beluga whale, a lifelong ocean dweller, doesn't want to be eaten—or perhaps, it wants the polar bear to be its food.
Fighting and struggling, the waves were surging, and soon a layer of blood appeared on the sea surface. Everyone held their breath and watched the winner swim out.
It's a polar bear.
This contest is a stunning one. As their habitats dwindle, they will eventually meet on a narrow road, but it's not the brave that prevails. In the Arctic, no animal is a winner; they linger on until the day of extinction truly arrives.
Live broadcast room
"The beluga whale's migration period is July and August. It could have gone elsewhere, but why did it end up in the shallow waters?"
“But polar bears are hungry too!”
There is no right or wrong, only the survival of the fittest.
No one was in a good mood. The polar bear dragged the beluga whale to the shore, where two other polar bears were already standing there waiting. Even though it was victorious, it still had to face another battle.
Chu Huaiqin and the others chose to go ashore on the other side of the beach. Because of the loud noise made by the white whale and the polar bear, many people in the camp came out to watch. Peppa and the little monk became even more worried about the little cutie. They were going to leave at noon tomorrow and wanted to see the little cutie again.
Anyway, there was only less than a day left, so after discussing it, everyone decided to let the little monk and Peppa Pig go find the little cutie. Unfortunately, there was no result until dark.
The live broadcast room is anxious
"My little cutie only comes here at night. Come out and have a look at us at night!"
"Why is Anthony so cowardly? He'll die if he speaks out!"
"Ahhh, I really want to tell them!"
The director team seemed to think so too. Not wanting to leave any regrets, they asked Chu Huaiqin and the others to exchange ten kilograms of fish.
Everyone: “…”
Maybe it's because the more you want, the harder it is to get. Ten kilograms of fish isn't usually that hard to come by, but on this day, they didn't get enough until 11 p.m. It was truly unbelievable. Then they got word that the cutie would appear that night, and the exhausted, sleepy group had to take turns keeping watch. Even though the Arctic nights were as bright as daytime, they were still so sleepy!
As if equipped with radar, the little cutie didn't appear until three in the morning. She was skinny and emaciated, not as plump and cute as before, just a pile of bones and skin. Her appearance woke everyone sleeping in the tent. Everyone crowded around the tent, poking their heads out to watch the little cutie flopping around in the sea, trying to catch fish. It was heartbreaking.
The fish were caught at five in the morning. The other polar bears got up and walked slowly. The little cutie swam out of the sea, biting two fish. He didn't even have time to shake off the water and secretly ran to the other side.
Like a child who is bullied by everyone, he only dares to come out in the middle of the night to find a little food.
Many viewers in the live broadcast room were crying uncontrollably.
The contestants also felt bad and secretly followed behind to catch up.
The whereabouts of this little cutie are very strange. Normally, polar bears will move around the seaside. It is impossible for it to be so far away from its food area. Even if a bear bullies it, it will at most stay away from other bears. Why is this little cutie like this?
With a lot of doubts in their minds, everyone followed secretly, but they didn't dare to follow too close. They just followed from a distance with their backs bent. Soon, the little cutie came to a small forest with two fish in his mouth. He walked to an adult polar bear lying on the ground, put the two fish on the ground, and the little cutie cried "嘤嘤" and stretched his head to push it.
That's its mother.
The polar bear mother was facing away from them. Everyone could only see the polar bear moving around as it was pushed, but she didn't get up. Everyone's first reaction was that she was injured.
"Look, there are a lot of fish nearby." the little monk exclaimed.
Everyone followed his gaze and saw that the polar bear mother was surrounded by fish, but because the grass blocked the fish, they couldn't see them at first.
"I'll go take a look, don't move." Chu Huaiqin had a bad feeling.
"I'll go with you." Ali's face was heavy.
Others also felt something was wrong and wanted to go over, but if there were too many people around, the little cutie would notice, so they had to suppress their anxiety.
Chu Huaiqin and Ali slowly approached the polar bear in the shade of the trees. The closer they got, the worse the smell became. When they were about five meters away, their pupils shrank slightly. Not far away appeared rotten fish, a rotten bear body, and dried wild fruits and flowers.
The little cutie's mother is really dead.
And all around it are little cuties fighting with other adult bears for food brought back for it.
The livestream audience knew it best, because they saw the little cutie appear at the beach every night, catching fish, even though he was injured. One, two, all for his mother. So, how many days had it been since the little cutie had eaten?
Or maybe it doesn't know yet that its mother is dead and is just sleeping.
What happened next was beyond their ability to handle, so Anthony contacted the animal protection organization, and they arrived around noon. After leading the little cutie away, the environmental protection organization wanted to take away the body of the little cutie's mother, but everyone disagreed. Peppa and the little monk got angry first.
"What should I do if my little cutie can't find her mother?"
"Yes, it found so much food for its mother and guarded her for so long. What will it do if it comes back and can't find her?"
The audience in the live broadcast room agreed with tears in their eyes, but they also disagreed.
"We can't let the little cutie go on like this. If we don't take away its mother's body, it will be more hurtful to it to watch her turn into a pile of bones." People from the environmental protection organization explained that this was not the first time they had encountered such an incident, and taking away the little cutie's mother's body was the best option.
"Sorry, we were impulsive," Chu Huaiqin patted the little monk who was crying with Paige, "We only choose what's good for the little cutie."
After that, Chu Huaiqin asked, "After the body is taken away, can you let us know how it died later?"
Others also wanted to know and looked at the environmental protection organization staff with red eyes.
"We can tell now, no need to wait," the environmental protection worker said, pointing to the contents exposed from the rotten belly. "It's all grass."
"Polar bears are obviously meat eaters."
Some people cried bitterly, while others endured it until their eyes turned red.
At noon, the show was about to end. No one expected that this year's show would end in such a heavy way.
"Protect the environment, protect the Arctic, return the polar bears, and give the little cutie a home."
Fifteen people stood in front of the camera holding a banner, shouting what seemed to be slogans, but they paid the price with their lives.
This is what Anthony wants to show everyone in the seventh Wilderness Survival: even if it is insignificant, you still want to work hard.
The author has something to say: The Arctic chapter is finished, and there will be another chapter tomorrow, which will be about the brother receiving the award and the two of them getting married.
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