Why Do All the Beasts Want Me?

Chapter 20

Qiao Qixi's feeling was correct; his face was more than just a little off, and if it continued like this, it would become asymmetrical.

However, that was a story for later. At present, both polar bears' attention was focused on the freshly made, golden-yellow honey block.

Ho-ney!

The favorite of ursidae.

In fact, polar bears originally evolved from land grizzlies, and their innate love for honey is as strong as that of most bears on land.

Even Audiss liked to eat honey. Smelling the rich, sweet aroma emanating from the honey block, he licked his lips, brought his nose closer, and carefully took a bite of the rare sweet treat.

Qiao Qixi happily spun around, eagerly awaiting Audiss's feedback, his round eyes seemingly asking, 'How is it? Is it delicious? Is it delicious?'

Honey is the best!

It seemed that even when he was human, he hadn't found honey so delicious. Could it be because the wild honey on Greenland was of better quality?

Perhaps.

Honey on the domestic market, processed through countless steps, has lost its original flavor and indeed lacks its authentic taste.

Honey was certainly delicious, and even Audiss couldn't resist the temptation, but he only took a small bite and stopped eating. This was Little Polar Bear's food, so he pushed it back for Qiao Qixi to eat himself.

Here it comes, here comes that bad habit of being overly humble again.

Qiao Qixi truly had no way to deal with this polar bear who loved him to the bone. Oh, no, he did have a way. Qiao Qixi first bit and crushed the honey block, smearing it all over his own mouth, then he leaned over and smeared it on Audiss's mouth. This way, Audiss had no choice but to stick out his tongue to clean it, and then taste the sweet flavor.

I'm truly a genius.

Qiao the Genius Qixi used this roundabout method to happily share the delicious honey with Audiss.

The two of them licked each other's mouths, a scene so unseemly and scandalous that it was first captured by the camera.

Of course, people wouldn't think that two wild polar bears were engaging in a sweet kiss.

As the saying goes, there's a reason for everything. After the collective effort and research of all colleagues in the office, they finally concluded: these two polar bears were eating honey.

As for why a pure block of honey would lead to such an ambiguous and enchanting behavior... that remains an unknown mystery for now.

Heaven knows, Earth knows, only those two polar bears know.

Summer, sharing honey—oh, the scene is too beautiful.

Those watching felt their hearts melt.

Audience member: "In the hungry summer, they actually found honey! How wonderful! I feel like it's sweetened my heart too."

Audience member: "Honey, honey, honey! Nothing makes ursidae happier than honey, hahaha."

Audience member: "Today's Audiss and Alexander are also sweet, sweet, sweet. So good."

Audience member: "Although all bears are hungry, I don't know why, but seeing Audiss and Alexander just makes me feel relaxed. Wow, eating honey is so blissful."

The scene of the two bears gnawing on each other's faces was not only posted on forums for thousands of humans to watch, but also witnessed by a female polar bear from a distance.

The polar bear population residing on this continent is relatively higher than in other places, after all, even the island's emblem is a polar bear.

It is evident that the polar bear is the symbol of Greenland.

It's not surprising to encounter other polar bears along the way, but the identity of this female polar bear is somewhat special.

She was not an ordinary polar bear; she was Audiss's mother. After leaving Audiss two years ago, the still young and strong female met a male she liked the following spring.

Without surprise, she became pregnant again, becoming a mother for the second time.

Unlike her first litter, Bear Mama gave birth to two bear cubs, but only one survived.

The female Little Polar Bear, about one year old, was very lovely and charming.

Like most polar bears that come ashore for the summer, the polar bear mother and daughter, who had traveled a long distance during this harsh season, looked quite tired and thin.

The keen Bear Mama smelled the sweet scent of honey in the air, and also the scent of a strong Male polar bear. This should have been a signal for caution and unease, yet the mother bear remembered this scent vividly.

She still remembered that this was one of her first litter of cubs.

That's right, Qiao Qixi guessed correctly; Audiss indeed had other siblings, and there were two of them.

The formidable Bear Mama managed to raise three cubs in her first litter, which was incredibly difficult and nothing short of a miracle.

Among them, Audiss was the strongest and had a more stable personality. Yes, he possessed an intelligence that his other siblings lacked; he had always been very independent, and thus left his mother early to forge his own life.

Later, the four blood-related polar bears scattered around this Arctic region, never meeting each other again.

This is also normal, because the entire Arctic is vast, unimaginably large, and the total number of polar bears is only a little over twenty thousand. The chances of the four of them reuniting are simply too small.

Until now, Bear Mama, having bred a second litter of cubs, leading her only surviving cub, unexpectedly encountered her previous litter's cub on the road, which made her recall memories vividly.

Compared to the Arctic four or five years ago, the environment now is even harsher.

The formidable Bear Mama was able to raise three cubs on her own four or five years ago, but four or five years later, despite her experience, she could only care for one cub.

Aside from luck and other force majeure factors, it must be said that it was all the environment's fault.

Bear Mama, leading her cub, stopped and did not turn to leave. She was certain Audiss would not attack them, but she also did not advance rashly, because the scene before her left her utterly bewildered.

The scent was right, the memory was right. Bear Mama remembered that this child, who left her earliest, was male, not female, but now she was confused.

That child was leading a sub-adult Little Polar Bear, also male.

Is he hunting?

No, Bear Mama clearly saw her child licking the face of that young male, which was a very intimate gesture. Even if the force were increased by 100 times, it wouldn't reach the level of hunting.

So Bear Mama was very confused.

After licking the sweet honey crumbs from their respective faces, the two satisfied bears finally had the presence of mind to pay attention to their surroundings.

Audiss had already sensed the appearance of a mother bear with her cub. Due to the familiar scent, he did not assume a defensive posture or become alert. Beyond that, he had no other thoughts, even if the other party was his mother.

This was Audiss's personality: he wasn't clingy with his mother, was weaned the earliest, and left the group the earliest.

Qiao Qixi also spotted the mother bear. Oh, he realized he was lucky, always encountering bear cubs. Look, here came another one, a rather delicate-looking only cub.

Given that they were all immature bears, he lacked the ability to distinguish whether the other party was female or male by scent; only an experienced Bear Mama could perceive it.

Actually, it had been a long time since he had encountered a strange bear. In Qiao Qixi's memory, the last bear he met was plump, but this time, the bear he met had become somewhat thin and tired.

Normal, after all, summer had truly arrived, or perhaps this was exactly what they themselves looked like now, Qiao Fatty thought, completely lacking self-awareness.

After exchanging a few glances with the mother bear, Audiss was the first to look away, then led Qiao Qixi to continue forward.

Oh dear, what's the point of encountering more cute bear cubs? You can only look, but not pet.

Never mind, never mind. Qiao Qixi regretfully withdrew his gaze, then waddled his big white butt, carrying the empty little yellow bucket, and turned to follow Audiss's steps.

At first, Qiao Qixi, in a good mood, walked very lightly, humming a tune out of key. Later, as he walked, he felt his left cheek becoming increasingly numb, so severely that even his eye was affected.

Surprised, Little Polar Bear touched his face with his paw and felt that his cheek was larger than usual.

To be precise, it was swollen.

"Wuwuwu..." With his left eye affected and narrowed to a slit, Qiao Qixi whimpered uncomfortably.

Audiss turned back, stopped, and looked at the Little Polar Bear. He was a little bewildered. In the end, he stood up, took the little yellow bucket off Qiao Qixi's head, and carefully examined Qiao Qixi, whose face was swollen...

"Wuwuwu..." Qiao Qixi cried to Audiss, his big eyes misty.

Some polar bears might never experience being stung and swollen by a bee in their lifetime, like Audiss, so he had no experience.

What's wrong?

However, from the Little Polar Bear's whimpers, Audiss probably knew that the other party was very uncomfortable, so he lowered his head and licked the Little Polar Bear's nose tip.

Other than that, Audiss didn't know how to comfort him.

Perhaps a full, delicious meal could solve this problem.

The location where food could be obtained was not far away. Audiss had already smelled the scent of a special environment, a fishy odor mixed with the various animal scents intertwined.

Audiss carried the plastic bucket for the Little Polar Bear and continued forward.

Since fake crying didn't get him more comfort, what else did Qiao Qixi have to cry about? He put away his Oscar-worthy acting skills and curiously looked back.

It seemed that the mother bear and her cub hadn't gone far.

Ah, it's not that they were following them; it just meant they shared the same destination and were going the same way.

This was great. In fact, as a bear who loved company, Qiao Qixi greatly welcomed polar bears with good personalities and temperaments to be their neighbors.

The premise was that they shouldn't fight; fighting hurts feelings!

Then Qiao Qixi realized that his worries were unfounded.

When they... or more accurately, when the troublesome Little Polar Bear couldn't stand the fatigue anymore and stopped to rest, the mother bear and her cub were still on their way, even swaggering past them. The Bear Mama even stared at him for several glances before looking away.

What's up?

Being handsome just attracts bear attention, even a mother bear with cubs is smitten, but unfortunately, I'm still an underage, unattached bear, not into fashionable older woman-younger man romances, Qiao Qixi thought to himself, hiding in Audiss's embrace with his half-swollen big face.

Hiss...

That dodge hit a sore spot, and so Qiao Qixi finally understood that perhaps the mother bear was not gazing at his handsome, pristine appearance, but rather his half-swollen pig-like face.

Annoying.

They rested for a while in place, then got up and continued their journey.

They walked quite fast, so they quickly overtook the mother bear and her cub ahead. This was necessary, oh, no, Qiao Chuchu, the top student from a prestigious school, finally discovered the blind spot.

Unscientific.

First, why didn't this mother bear with cubs avoid Audiss? Second, why didn't Audiss, who was always so concerned about his safety, walk around this mother bear?

You overtake me, I overtake you. Ponder, ponder carefully!

Then something else happened that made Qiao Qixi's imagination run wild: when Audiss overtook the mother bear and her cub, the Bear Mama suddenly stretched her neck and sniffed behind Audiss's butt.

Ah, this...

It's well known that in the animal kingdom, sniffing someone's butt is a very rude gesture, and its implication is quite strong.

Love, what else is there to doubt?

Besides reproductive needs, Qiao Qixi couldn't think of anything else.

Yes, he never would have dreamed that Bear Mama just wanted to confirm if there was something wrong with her nose and if she had misremembered the cub's gender.

It proved that she hadn't misremembered.

As for why a Male polar bear would raise a Little Polar Bear, such a complex question, let alone a female polar bear's intelligence being unable to comprehend it, even a scientific genius with an IQ of 200 couldn't understand it.

It's too rare.

Having just witnessed that scene, Qiao Qixi, who was good at scriptwriting, had already begun to stage a 100-episode romantic idol drama in his mind.

On the desolate and arduous journey, a single mother, tormented by life and losing hope, falls in love at first sight with a handsome single father—oh, wait, a steady older brother with a burden.

Next episode...

Scriptwriter Qiao carefully observed Audiss's reaction. Hmm, Audiss had no special reaction. Although he didn't walk around the single mother, he didn't spare her another glance, as if she were air.

That's right, Audiss isn't an adult yet, his thoughts are still very proper.

He's still just a teenager.

What bad timing.

Qiao Qixi: "Poor thing, meeting the right bear at the wrong time."

As they walked, Audiss seemed to notice something was amiss. The Little Polar Bear who should have been following him seemed to have had his attention drawn by something else.

Yes, he looked back and found that his own Little Polar Bear, who had forgotten the pain after the wound healed, was staring intently at Bear Mama with his half-swollen pig-like face.

However, the mother bear with the cub was not very gentle; she let out a low growl at this unfamiliar-smelling Little Polar Bear.

There was no malice, just a mother's habitual warning to keep the other party away from her.

Audiss, however, wouldn't have it. He dropped the little yellow bucket from his mouth and went over to negotiate with Bear Mama.

There was a *clang*, sounding very much like plastic hitting a stone...

little yellow!

Qiao Qixi's fur immediately bristled, and he quickly abandoned all curiosity to rescue his little yellow bucket.

Ahhh, if anything happened to little yellow, he wouldn't be done with Audiss.