Under the starry sky, the snowfield is not dark and lightless.
Snowflakes have a crystal structure, and the snow on the ground is like a mirror, reflecting all the surrounding light.
Under the starlight, every raised snow mountain is glowing with dim light. Occasionally, you can find a huge figure running on it. It is a polar bear that comes out to look for food at night.
Autumn begins in October, and polar bears need to forage a lot to survive the entire winter. This is also the time when they are most active.
The doomsday seed bank emits a dull green light in the dark night,
The engine made a low roar, and the heat generated by the combustion of fuel quickly spread to the entire off-road vehicle body. The prisms on the exhaust pipe slowly melted, and clear water droplets fell down and froze again on the ground.
As if hearing the roar of the car, the polar bear that was running on the snowy field suddenly stopped and turned around to approach Bifang.
Upon seeing this, Bi Fang subconsciously reached out and touched the hunting knife on the side of his thigh.
The bears have killed too many, and when they see them approaching, they subconsciously want to draw their swords.
"nonono!" Barritt quickly explained.
"Don't be nervous, this is a normal reaction."
Bi Fang was stunned: "Normal reaction?"
How is this normal?
Bi Fang saw with his own eyes that the polar bear went from jogging to running wildly, with its hair flying, which was obviously a sign of extreme excitement.
Is this normal?
So far, the beast that Bi Fang has dealt with the most is the bear. Although polar bears have never faced each other head-on, as a unified subfamily, there is not much difference between the two, especially brown bears and polar bears. After geographical isolation, the two have not yet differentiated.
For 600,000 years, there has been no reproductive isolation.
They all have extremely developed acromions, which are structural features formed by the attachment of shoulder muscles. The well-developed shoulder muscles drive the front paws to swing very powerfully.
The claws of polar bears are more than 5 centimeters, shorter than brown bears and slightly longer than black bears, but they are sharper.
The claws of brown bears and black bears are very blunt, but the claws of polar bears are extremely sharp. This is an adaptation to walking in ice and snow.
With its strong force and sharp effect, polar bears can easily tear through armor plates more than 5mm thick, which means that it is not safe for the two people in the off-road vehicle at this moment, and it can even be said to be very dangerous.
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Bifang could see that Barritt himself often felt his little finger holding the steering wheel tremble slightly.
But since Barritt said so, Bi Fang took no further action.
Compared to himself as a tourist, Barrit should be more familiar with the aborigines here.
Barritt took a few deep breaths, put down the seat, climbed into the back seat of the car, pressed the shoulder switch, opened the back of the seat, and pulled out a rather large object wrapped in butter paper.
Barritt slowly unwrapped the oil paper.
A strong smell of fat overflowed.
This is......
The butter paper was wrapped so tightly that Bifang didn't smell any strange smell after getting in the car.
Barritt cut it open with a knife, and everyone saw clearly that it was actually meat!
It's pork belly.
Bi Fang judged the type of meat based on the smell.
There is a lot in this bag, at least the amount of several pigs. They all use the fattest pig belly. They are usually leftovers that no one eats. At first glance, there is not even red lean meat, it is all fat.
Oil.
Although few people eat it, for polar bears, there is nothing better than food full of fat. Only fat can allow them to spend the entire polar night comfortably.
Carrying the heavy bag of butter, Barritt quickly opened the car door, raised his legs, and lifted the fat out of the seat. Then he picked up the yellow paper, quickly closed the door, returned to the original position, kicked the accelerator, and left quickly.
The whole process was very quick, and it looked like it had been done more than once.
"Huh, I get very nervous every time I do something like this. This is already the fourth time, but my palms still get sweaty." Barritt let out a long sigh of relief, as if he had completed an arduous task.
Well, feeding polar bears in the wild is indeed a difficult task.
After all, no one can guarantee whether the last thing a polar bear eats is a sheep.
"Every time we come here, we feed the polar bears some food so that we can live in peace." Barritt explained while driving the car.
Both kindness and power are given. Holding a rifle in your hand is a threat, and feeding someone regularly is a kindness.
As the glaciers melt, fewer and fewer polar bears can catch seals, and a considerable number of polar bears do not survive every year.
According to ecological data calculations, polar bears may become extinct by 2100.
"We don't feed too much every time. We usually feed them once every time they come to ensure that they don't attack us due to excessive hunger."
The law that has always existed in nature is survival of the fittest. Most polar bears can still catch enough food to survive their difficult period.
Only a small number of weak polar bears will find it difficult to survive due to environmental changes. If humans keep feeding them, they will lose their predatory nature.
Therefore, Barritt and others have always maintained a relatively fragile balanced relationship with polar bears.
Overall, this trip was an eye-opener for the audience.
There is a magical feeling of seeing future technology in the real world, and it is also the first time I realize that human beings really have made practical plans for the future.
Many people couldn't help but think of what Bi Fang said a long time ago.
The history of life is a story of mass elimination, followed by the differentiation of the few survivors.
The earth has witnessed five mass extinction events. In each mass extinction event, 70%-85% of species will become extinct. In the Permian, more than 95% of animals retired and never came back.
Humanity has successfully survived time and time again for nearly 3.5 billion years.
In the next hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years, will it swim in the sea of stars, or become part of a certain fossil?
After wandering all the way back to the city, Bi Fang said goodbye to Barritt, turned off the live broadcast, and walked slowly on the city streets alone.
Quite deserted...
After all, this is a place where there are more polar bears than people.
There were no vendors or stalls, just orange street lights and the occasional passing street light.
The background color is black, with a white polar bear painted on it, and the red outer outline of the warning sign also informs passers-by of possible dangers outside.
The vast majority of polar bear attacks on humans occur at night.
In fact, it is only six o'clock in the afternoon on a normal day. In any low-latitude city, it would still be dusk, but here, the night is so deep that it seems to be midnight.
Back at his hotel, Bi Fang had nothing to do. He was about to take out his mobile phone and play a few games before going to bed. Suddenly, the phone next to him rang, and the front desk of the hotel informed him that someone was looking for him downstairs.
Someone is looking for me?
Bi Fang was stunned. Even though he had many friends, he didn't have them all in the most remote city in the world, right?
With curiosity in mind, Bi Fang came downstairs, but what he saw was a strange man whom he didn't recognize at all.