"A new maid?"
Xu Nan asked instinctively, "Is she a local?"
He had noticed that Evelyn's wording when she mentioned this maid was somewhat strange.
She had not said where she had hired a maid, only that it was in the northern lands... Normally, such phrasing was strange coming from Evelyn, who had lived in Icewind Territory for quite some time.
Given Evelyn's status, hiring a maid should have been a relatively cautious and rigorous matter. Background checks would certainly have to be carried out with the utmost care.
That was why Xu Nan found it a little odd.
After all, before entering the castle, he had encountered those bizarre incidents.
Evelyn thought for a moment. "She doesn't seem to be a local. I heard she wandered all the way here from Snowfield City to escape pursuit by the Frost Winter Clan's orcs..."
Frost Winter Clan... That name sounded a little familiar...
Xu Nan remembered. Wasn't that the orc tribe he had tricked senseless?
Back when he had been doing the prerequisite campaign mission for the Six-Nine Plan, Xu Nan had used Forgiveness Hats to trick quite a few Frost Winter Clan orcs into getting themselves killed.
He had never been to Snowfield City, but it had been mentioned in previous missions.
"She escaped from Snowfield City to Icewind Territory? Isn't that a little too absurd for an ordinary person?"
He could not help asking.
Time-wise, it was certainly possible. It had been a long time since Xu Nan had discovered Yu Tuo Sang and completed the Delta mission. But according to Evelyn, the new maid was probably just an ordinary person, a girl too weak to truss a chicken. Even with a merchant caravan escorting her, getting from Snowfield City to Icewind Territory would have been exceedingly difficult.
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