Day by day in the infinite game

Chapter 320 320. Polar Bear Dilemma

Polar bears are the largest living bears.

What is different from our common perception is that its skin is completely black, and its body hair is colorless and transparent, but it looks white under sunlight.

It mainly relies on sea ice in the Arctic Ocean for hunting. Its main food is seals, and sometimes it also eats large prey such as walruses, beluga whales, and narwhals.

In recent years, the living environment of polar bears has become increasingly harsh.

Global warming, excessive emissions of greenhouse gases, and melting glaciers have left them without hard enough sea ice to dig holes and hunt, without enough food, and difficult to adapt to excessively high temperatures. Their numbers are declining rapidly.

There are reports that as global warming intensifies, polar bears are likely to become extinct in 2100.

[Ding!Attention to all game players. Attention to all game players. We have now received an urgent game mission - Save the Polar Bear. The mission difficulty is five stars, and the mission importance is five stars. Please read the game description carefully!

Again, this game is not a drill. Saving polar bears is urgent.

When polar bears disappear from the world, it means that Arctic glaciers will no longer exist, global sea levels will rise, and coastal cities with many humans will be submerged in sea water; the global climate will further deteriorate, droughts and water shortages will occur in inland areas, and rivers and lakes will dry up. , coastal areas are prone to flooding, and heavy rains and mudslides are frequent...

This may not be the saddest thing.

Great changes in the environment often lead to numerous conflicts of interest among countries, leading to constant disputes and smoke.

The butterfly effect is often more powerful than expected.

Saving polar bears also saves humans themselves.

This time it is a task that requires the joint efforts of all game players. Saving polar bears ultimately requires managing the environment, restoring Arctic ecology, and stabilizing the global climate.

Due to some uncontrollable factors, there are still at most 15 months until polar bears completely disappear from the planet.

I believe you are more willing to understand that there are 454 days left until the end of the world.

The success of the game mission to save polar bears will directly determine the future fate of mankind.

As the game progresses, more and more people have made changes, and the appearance of the entire planet has indeed improved to a certain extent.

The game mission to save the polar bears will officially start at 00:00 tonight, so players please be prepared. ]
This time the emergency mission prompt sound was just like the game that came from the sky. Every player received the mission information.

This is the first time Tang Qinqin and the others have received an "urgent mission."

"What's going on? Didn't it say there are at least 80 years left? Why is it so urgent all of a sudden?"

"If the polar bear falls, we humans will be faced with following in its footsteps. We cannot let them disappear from this world!"

"This only shows that the situation of polar bears is far worse than we imagined. We must pay attention and take immediate action."

The players all looked serious and expressed their opinions on the matter.

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At this time, on the few remaining ice caps in the Arctic Ocean, a skinny and almost out of shape female adult polar bear was taking her recently born cubs out for food.

Polar bears are raised by a single parent. After they have completed their birth, the two adult bears will go their separate ways and will never see each other again.

Then the female polar bear works hard to find food and store enough nutrients. During the hibernation period, she will give birth to cubs and begin her arduous career of raising babies.

It is said that when the cub is born, the mother bear is still in a sleepy state of hibernation, but when she hears the cry of the cub, the mother's body will be "stimulated" instinctively to produce milk to feed the cub.

The mother bears feed them with milk for nearly three months until spring arrives, the best hunting season for polar bears.

Before spring to late spring, when the Arctic glaciers have not yet begun to melt, polar bears can flex their muscles, dig holes in suitable locations on the ice, ambush, and hunt for delicious seals.

After the end of spring, the best hunting season is almost over. Until around July, the hunting time for polar bears is basically over.

At this time, it was the beginning of July.

July in the Northern Hemisphere is the season of midsummer.

Most of the ice in the Arctic Ocean began to break, drift away, and merge into the vast sea.

This mother bear struggled through the spring with her two cubs.

Carrying a baby and traveling long distances to find food have been continuously consuming the little energy left in its body. Not to mention that as the weather gets warmer day by day, the ice caps melt little by little and become thinner. He would fall into the ice cave with one foot, and then spend a long time struggling to climb to the stronger ice before he could breathe.

The ice surface is thinning and ice holes are increasing, which creates more escape opportunities for seals who come ashore for air ventilation, but sets up a "hunting game" with a lower success rate for hungry polar bears.

Once a seal jumps into the sea, its movements become very flexible and it disappears without a trace in the blink of an eye, making it difficult for polar bears to catch them.

Without a complete ice surface, it is basically difficult for polar bears to approach seals.

In order to adapt to survival, polar bears had to change their hunting strategies. They learned to swim quietly in the ice floes and slowly approach the seals that came ashore for air, and then waited for opportunities.

If this effort fails, the polar bear will be one step closer to starving to death. However, the reality is that according to statistics, at this time of year, only one of the 20 polar bear hunts can succeed.

More often than not, they have to travel long distances in search of food and swim hard in the sea without ice caps; they finally find the prey, but have to watch it escape, and then plan the next attempt to survive. There is no choice to go down.

As temperatures rise in summer, they spend more and more energy hunting.

At this time, the mother bear has become so thin that she looks like a different "bear" compared to before.

Now it urgently needs a seal to replenish energy. The fat of a seal alone has about 100 million calories, which can sustain it for about a week.

It still has two cubs to raise, and it doesn't want to fall down.

With it around, male polar bears, wolves, etc. dare to come forward to test and provoke. If it is gone and there is no "protector god", the fate of the two little cubs will be obvious.

It dragged its tired body and walked mechanically, its dull eyes trying to look around.

A baby seal is enough. If a baby seal can persevere, there will be hope for the children.

But, why did the ice beneath its feet break again? Why was its vision completely white and its ears buzzing? Did it fall into the ice cave again?Isn't the ice cave very cold?What about its children, where are they?
Before falling to the ground from exhaustion and falling into coma, the mother bear's last conscious thought was worrying about her cub...

(End of this chapter)