David was in the Arctic, and Mo Qiong soon found him with a group of people.
He had turned into a polar bear.
Luckily, he was at the top of the food chain. Unfortunately, life as a polar bear was extremely difficult.
During this season, they had to store large amounts of fat for hibernation, which meant hunting constantly.
Around this time every year, seals came to breed. They were polar bears' staple food.
This year, however, the expected pack ice never arrived. Because of global warming, it was much hotter than usual, and the pack ice failed to form.
Without the pack ice, the seals lost their breeding grounds and were forced to cross the ocean to find more suitable places to reproduce.
As a result, when polar bears woke up ravenously hungry, there was not a single seal to be found in the vast white world...
Of course, David's mother could still trek long distances to find food. Bears ate almost anything; when starving, they did not mind eating plants!
So with a bit of luck, they would not starve to death and might be able to survive.
But David was in dire straits. He was only a small polar bear... and could hardly do anything without his mother.
Even if he could endure and overcome everything else, using his intelligence to deal with it, there was one thing he simply could not do: sleep.
Even after turning into a polar bear, he could not fall asleep. Yet this was the most important survival skill polar bears possessed. By hibernating, they lowered their metabolism and could go for months without food or water while consuming the bare minimum of energy.
This was not limited to hibernation. Even ordinary sleep was a state of reduced consumption.
David's inability to