Fang Qiuling's time away from the village was not long, only about a month.

For Elune, whose civilization is still in the Middle Ages, a month is not a long time. Especially in winter, even the princes and nobles who don't worry about food and clothing will choose to hide at home in the "cat winter". On the one hand, because everything withers in winter, the nobles' favorite hunting activities basically can't catch prey; On the other hand, it's really cold outside.

In the present world, when Fang Qiuling went back, it happened to be the most lively time when the "Spring Games" was in full swing. His plan was to go back and rest and celebrate the New Year by the way. Since he is from the magic capital and his family lives in the magic capital, he will not be a "participant" in the "Spring Games", and he thought it would be a good holiday. But I didn't expect to be caught by Qin Rongyu to work as soon as I went back, and went to Teldaheim on a business trip. The days have been colorful.

The same month is also an unforgettable month for the cats who live in the Agarwal Valley. An unprecedented snowstorm has hit the valley, and the violent snowstorm has caused a lot of damage to the cat, which had not had a good harvest this year and had a hard time surviving the winter.

Although the double warning of the Great Elder and Pastor Notos gave the cat charms a short time to respond, the time to deal was still too short. Eliza's village simply didn't have time to deliver the news of the impending snowstorm to every cat ghost settlement in the valley. And even if it did, the cat charms in some settlements didn't fully believe it.

——The once-in-a-century white disaster is coming, who will believe it if there is no evidence!

- You mean Grand Elder Rune? He's old and confused, can he believe what he says?

- A warning from the god of wind? Sorry, the Agarwal Cats don't believe in Notos!

With time pressed and no idea when the White Plague would eventually come, all Eliza and the others could do was to send the warning to every village in the valley as much as possible. They were asked to persuade from village to village, but it was not allowed at all.

A few villages close to Eliza and her family chose to believe it, but most of them only reinforced their houses and took some precautions. In short, there are not many cat charms who follow Eliza to the cave to avoid the White Calamity. Most of the cat charms are still reluctant to leave the village where they live. After all, compared to the village you are used to, the cave needs nothing but water. And in winter, water is the most scarce......

So when the wind and snow fell, everything in the valley was covered in white, and the cats who hid in the caves were all frightened and changed their faces and meowed.

In fact, they are doing quite well. The entrance to the cave is not large, and sealing most of it with stones can effectively reduce the influx of cold winds, and then a bonfire is lit in the depths of the cave, and the cave is generally relatively warm. Coupled with the large amount of food obtained from the last trade in late autumn and the materials left by Fang Qiuling, it was definitely impossible to be full, but it was still possible to have a bite to eat every day.

With foresight and preparation, Eliza and her family survived the coldest two weeks without danger.

In the past two weeks, many cat charms who have stayed in the village have fled one after another. However, compared to the more than ten villages in the entire valley, less than one in ten people fled to the tribe. And often when they arrive at the cave, they only have their last breath left. The purpose of holding this breath is to entrust the cub in his arms, so that the cub has a chance to live......

- What about the people who didn't make it?

The cats in the cave didn't ask, and they didn't need to ask. The adult cat charm invariably avoided this question, because they already knew the answer. As for the young cats, let them play as much as possible, the answer is too heavy for them......

The deceased is gone, and those who are alive now should live better with the expectations of the deceased. The best thing to do for the deceased is to take care of the cubs they send at all costs, so that the cubs can thrive.

Through Eliza and Shino's descriptions one by one, Fang Qiuling quickly sketched the scene in his mind, and then became silent.

After a long time, he silently bowed his head and stroked his chest to the north.

- Salute to the lost Agarwal Cat Charms!

Maybe those cat charms who did not accept the persuasion to take refuge in the cave have all kinds of selfishness and all kinds of calculations, but in the end, they are only reluctant to give up their homes. And when the white plague struck, the choice they made was so unanimous - to leave the hope of life to the next generation, and to swallow their last breath in the cold wind.

Replacing tea with wine to pay tribute to the deceased Maomei people, Fang Qiuling's heart was full of heaviness. And at the same time as heaviness, there was a problem that could not be ignored that made him frown.

- This sudden white plague is completely unreasonable!

Even if he doesn't know much about meteorology, and even most of the knowledge of meteorology comes from daily weather forecasts, Fang Qiuling still has a skeptical attitude towards the arrival of the white disaster when he watched "One Hundred Thousand Whys" when he was a child.

Whether it is snowfall or rainfall, there is actually no difference between the two in essence, and they are both natural phenomena in which water vapor rises in the sky to form clouds, and then falls due to temperature changes. It's just that the temperature drops slowly and above freezing, and it usually falls with water droplets, that is, rain; If it's below freezing, it's snowflakes. If there is a sharp drop in temperature, hail will fall.

The winter of the misty lake is cold, but its geographical location has already passed the center line of the Araka continent, and it is located in the southern part of the continent, no matter how cold it is, it cannot be compared to the northern country. As for the White Calamity, it is usually exclusive to the Northlands, especially the large area bordering the Endless Glacier.

Such a huge snowstorm falling on the Misty Lake area is obviously not a normal natural phenomenon. Could it be ...... Is it artificial?

In the present world, this sudden catastrophic weather is undoubtedly a manifestation of large-scale destruction of the natural environment, such as the "El Nilo phenomenon", which has been called for example.

However, in Elune, this anomaly can only be linked to one possibility, and that is magic! In the list of standard spells, there is a spell called "Blizzard" in the fourth energy level, and there are also spells such as "Ice Storm" and "Ice Domain" in the higher energy levels. As for legendary spells, there will definitely be no shortage of them in the Ice Realm!

Freezing an entire valley with cold magic may seem like a difficult task, but if you do it, you can do it by working together with several high-level spellcasters with gold-rank strength.

But what's the point of the frozen Agarwal Valley? Although the cat charm clan is flexible, it has never been a powerful group, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is indisputable. What are the benefits of destroying such a race for the caster of spells?

Fang Qiuling is not a conspiracy theorist, but he will still be extremely cautious about things that obviously go against common sense and reveal something different. You must know that Elune is not Tellahim, and he can walk sideways in Tellahim because the strength ceiling there is low, and if you want to walk sideways in Elune, you must at least have the strength of a legend or above! Fang Qiuling didn't want to be slapped to death by a passing "master" because of his carelessness!

Could it be a large-scale strategic-level spell unleashed by Mamo, the Dark Nation? The skeletons aren't very afraid of the cold, not to mention the Death Knight, who is good at the ice field. Cold weather can be good for the undead, but it's not kind to the living......

Just when Fang Qiuling was thinking about various possibilities, the follow-up cat charm army arrived, and the village gradually became lively.

Eliza's village is one of the largest in the valley. However, even if it is a "big family", there are not many adult cat charms, and if you remove the old and frail, there are even fewer young adults who are able to work. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been Eliza who took the underage kittens to Lakesprings to deliver trade furs and herbs last fall.

Although several villages have taken in survivors, the number of young and middle-aged cats in the village has not changed. Most of the survivors are underage kittens, and they are the ones who are relatively young and still need to be cared for. Eliza, along with the little ones who had gone out with her to run the business, were now the main force in the village, although they were minors. Especially a few of them are older, and now they are all "adults" who are in charge of themselves.

Faced with the actual situation of the big and small cats in front of him climbing up and down together, Fang Qiuling had nothing to think of except sighing.

The First Kuroshio War is imminent, and the Agarwal Valley has just experienced a white plague. It's a dilemma to leave behind these struggling cats and head south or stay and rebuild their homes with them.

But fortunately, there is still a little bit of time, and there is no need to make a decision immediately......

Most of the houses in the village are well preserved. The wooden houses made of red pine trees in the valley are sturdy, and even though the snow on the roof is more than a man high, it still stands. So as long as the snow is cleared from the roof and repaired simply, the house will be habitable in no time.

The first thing to clean up was undoubtedly the big cafeteria. Replace the broken windows and light the fire in the center of the house, and the room quickly becomes warmer. Then remove the fence from the carriage and put it into the house, circle a small space, and the cubs who can't help with the work can go in and move their hands and feet, and the temporary kindergarten is completed!

More than half of the winter has passed, and most of the materials used in the village for winter have been consumed. In particular, there are a lot of mouths for eating, and the consumption of food has increased a lot at once. But fortunately, Fang Qiuling brought a lot of food when he came over this time, just to make up for the gap in food. At the same time, a variety of tools also provided a lot of convenience for the renovation of the village.

Among the various tools, the most popular among the cat charms is undoubtedly the large box of multi-purpose sapper shovels, almost one for each person, even old Tom and Elder Eddard who don't plan to work have one each at hand to play with.

The multi-purpose sapper shovel has an extremely thin and light head, a few points thinner than the thinnest planks on a horse-drawn carriage. The blade head is cut on three sides, and one side edge is serrate. It can be used not only as a shovel or shovel, but also as an axe and hand saw. At the same time, the blade of the sapper shovel is extremely sharp, and it is quite good to use it as a weapon. And the shovel head is as smooth as a mirror, whether it is stuck to the mud or snow, a little wipe will be as bright as new.

In the past, you had to carry multiple tools at the same time, but now you can do it all with a sapper shovel. The efficiency of work has also been greatly improved, and the cat charms who have used it have said that it is very good!