The grassland, what it looks like, Alice has always wondered if it is the blue sky, white clouds, and blue earth dancing in the wind, countless herds of cattle and sheep leisurely bowing their heads to graze on the grass, mixed with chasing and fighting sheepdogs, and shepherds on horses wielding leather whips to prevent cattle and sheep from escaping.

As a result, it is still very different from what Alice imagined, in the vast world, a vast white expanse, no cattle and sheep, no shepherds, and no life can be seen anywhere in sight.

Perhaps this is the difference between the winter prairie and the spring prairie, or perhaps the words about the prairie that Alice has read are too exaggerated and out of touch with reality.

The eagles soaring in the sky, the voles and snakes shuttling underground, there were none, as if this was not the most prosperous Rus steppe in the whole north, but somewhere where there was no forbidden area involving life, no, maybe there was nothing wrong with describing the scenery Alice saw in terms of the negative energy plane where life had disappeared and been completely wiped out, or the underworld that carried the souls of the dead.

Is this normal?

This is not normal

Even in such a cold and snowy environment, even if most animals choose to hibernate because of such a cold climate, and the insects disappear, even the voles that survive under the snow and rely on the roots of plants are missing, which is the real strange thing.

Alice believed that her lich-gifted life perception could and could not go wrong in such a situation, and she also believed that no one in the main plane could fool a lich whose strength had touched the realm of the gods, and no one could do that.

What the hell is going on here

There shouldn't be such a situation going out here

Nor did the message from Alia state that such a situation occurred

Did Alia deceive herself? Is the message back fake?

Such a thought was just thrown into a corner after a circle in her mind, but she knew her position in the other party's heart, and she could not disobey, refute, or deceive the faith.

She didn't want to lose a loyal and reliable subordinate who could help her solve some problems because of such unfounded and unwarranted speculation, after all, there were not many people who could use her now, and if Alia was sad and couldn't work because of this, Semiramis would definitely blow up.

If Aria hadn't deceived, then the situation that appeared in the Rus Meadow had only recently appeared, making this bustling place as quiet as the negative energy plane.

However, no matter why this situation happened, it would not have much impact on Alice, or if something happened to this grassland, it would be a very good thing to be able to weaken the power of the Attila Empire.

Alice didn't stop her progress because of the thoughts in her head, she used her magic to float two meters above the ground, so that the thick snow on the ground could not hinder her speed.

The sky was still snowing lightly, and the wind was blowing from the east, and if you held a bottle of hot water in your hand at this time, it would turn into a bottle of ice in less than a few seconds.

It's been a long time since Alice has been alone in such a terrible environment, especially since the Baltic Empire was founded, and those vampire maids were able to help her deal with some problems and share some things.

In her memory, the last time she walked alone in such ice and snow, she also had to recall the time when she went to attend the wedding of Siegel and Sigoaney, which can be described as bloody, and changed the situation in the entire Baltic Sea.

Alice wasn't complaining about anything, or for the sake of her goals, in order to maintain a stable life with Semiramis and the others (the dream of being a salted fish forever?), and this little bit of suffering was actually not a big deal.

After all, Alice had experienced a period of tribulation when she didn't come to this plane, and she wasn't the one people imagined, the eldest lady who could only have a tea party, nor the salted fish who would only stay at home and study what she was interested in, and she didn't listen to what was going on outside the window (?).

A day had passed since she landed in the Baltic Sea to the Ross steppe area, and the lifeless scene she had seen before had passed, and although she had not found any trace of intelligent life, she had found voles that were active under the soil and fed on grass roots.

There were even more found than Alice had expected, many, many, very many, and in her field of vision, the dirt was full of moving voles, which was a very abnormal thing.

Even in winter, many animals that feed on voles are still active, such as wolves, foxes, and fierce birds such as owls.

In addition to this, voles are also one of the food for jackals and werewolves with a keen sense of smell, and an adult gnolls can catch hundreds of voles a day, which are fat enough for a small tribe to survive for a day.

Don't feel cruel, and don't have any pity for these cute-looking little ones, with their ability to reproduce, if there are no natural predators, this grassland will soon turn into a bare desert.

The grass that grows is eaten by the roots, so it is not so simple to grow again, and when there is no food, the last grass seeds will also become food for the voles.

Even if there are no grass seeds that have finally grown, it will take a long time for the land to return to its current luxuriant state, even if there is enough rain and fertile land.

This large number of voles easily led Alice to speculate a lot of information, such as that the food chain here has been completely destroyed, and the animals that feed on voles have had accidents, or are extinct, or for other reasons, temporarily disappeared from this land.

Hunted, made into jerky, and used as food for the Attila army, this is the most likely scenario that Alice can guess, but if this logic is followed, then the huge number of voles cannot be explained.

As for the fact that voles are difficult to catch in the dirt, it is even more fantastical, with the help of werewolves and gnolls, even if most of the people who remain here now are old, weak, sick and disabled, these voles cannot be a problem at all.

What the hell is going on in this land

What has happened to this grassland?

As they got deeper and deeper, these two questions always lingered in Alice's mind, unable to explain and answer, which made her pupils rarely carry a trace of doubt that could not be dissolved.

Equally puzzled by Alice was the death of a knight who had arrived from Karelia and had arrived a week later than expected due to heavy snowfall.

The white expanse made it particularly difficult for him to find the local tribes, after all, a flat grassland was covered with snow, and it was impossible to find some references in such a situation, and compare them with the places marked on the map.

If it weren't for the fact that the sun in the sky could still show him the four directions of east, west, north and south, he would not know how long he would have to walk on the white grassland that has turned into a snowy field.

Like Alice, Death discovered the land, and unlike Alice's pure curiosity, Death felt a wave of unease.

The reason for this emotion is that death is different from the angle that Alice is standing on, and for Alice, it doesn't matter how much Rose Prairie has become, how bad it has become, or how much it has really become a desert that will take a long time to recover.

The worse the land becomes, the more it will be able to weaken the power of Attila, and now that Karelia and Finland have been depressed by the previous war, at least 80% of the food of the entire Attila Empire needs to be provided by this steppe.

If there is a problem in this steppe, then it is not only a matter of the Western Expedition being forced to stop, but the entire Attila Empire is enveloped in hunger and is in danger of overturning.

At this time, the murderous death can't help but be glad that he came here, if it weren't for the appearance of those druids, he wouldn't have appeared here at this time, then when the Attira army really landed in Scandinavia, the problems here will erupt again, and that will be the real irreparable situation.

No, maybe there is a problem in the Rus steppe, and it is also inseparable from those druids, after all, before the appearance of the druids, the various territories within the territory of the Attila Empire were no longer chaotic, at least on the surface, the order formulated by Attila can be well implemented and enforced.

Even if it was because of those dead merchants who had been in chaos for a period of time, and there were a lot of losses, the Rus Prairie was the same, there was no way, after all, it was a knight who made a move, no matter what other thoughts those people had, as long as they didn't want to die, they had to bury those thoughts deep in their hearts.

However, when this question arises, another question also comes to Death's mind, since there is a problem in the Rus steppe, then what supply lines are asked, and why are there always convoys departing from here to transport logistics to the Atila army at the forefront?

According to his speculation, and based on the analysis of the available intelligence, this did not correspond to the logic of the course of events

Or maybe it's the Rus steppes themselves that are at fault, not the Rus steppe tribes?

With this speculation in mind, Death headed for the gathering place of a large tribe in his memory, the territory of one of the great powers of the Rus' steppes, ruled by werewolves.

Werewolves, this race is stronger than the gnolls, and the individual strength is on par with the centaurs, and once had a status no less than that of the White Bears and Mammoths in Attila's army, and a similar status to the gnolls who are now impressed by Atira, well, this is what they think, and the others also think so.

However, in the first war of conquest with Scandinavia, the werewolf race tasted defeat at the hands of Beowulf's berserkers, and a large number of adult werewolves died in that land, and even their leader did not escape in the end, which made this powerful race decline rapidly, so that only in the Rus' steppe, near the Ural Mountains, could they maintain a certain strength.

Even so, whether it is Attila or several knights under him, they have always had a good impression of the werewolf clan, because the werewolves who choose to submit are the most loyal warriors, even if they are relatives, those gnolls are not comparable to them.

In this world, being strong is an essential thing, but as a subordinate, loyalty is even more valuable, no one does not want a loyal subordinate, and no one will not cherish a loyal subordinate.

Now that the Rus Steppe has changed, Death has chosen to settle in the gathering place of those werewolves, which is also based on the consideration of this situation, even if other races choose to betray Atira, these werewolves will fight for her until the last warrior dies.

Death led his blue-looking and green-looking horse down the snow, as the snow slowed him down, and he had to stop every now and then to make sure he was heading.

Although the sun in the sky is the way to guide him, so that he will not get lost in the vast snow, in the midst of the snowstorm, it is not a simple and easy job to confirm the position of the sun with his eyes.

Some people may ask again, why he doesn't ride his horse, and the horse that can run on the snow without a trace, isn't it easy to solve these problems?

It is true that the horse riding his can move freely and quickly in such an environment, but in such an environment, it is definitely not a wise thing to use a small amount of physical strength in this area.

Death doesn't know what will happen on the next road, and he doesn't know if an enemy will appear in front of him and attack him later, so it is necessary to keep his horse under a certain amount of physical strength.

Otherwise, when he encounters an invincible enemy, or when he needs to escape, his horse has no strength and can't run, it will not only be an embarrassing scene, it will really kill him.

If it were known that he had made such a mistake on the battlefield because of a low-level mistake such as the lack of physical strength of his mount, then he believed that he would be a character in the tavern's Bard story for a long time to come, and he would be on the spot as a funny harlequin.

He is not the funny guy of war, and if he is allowed to be sung like this, he will never endure it, and it will definitely not be him who is unlucky, but those bards who do not know the height of the sky.