Oops, I became the witch's substitute

This country is indeed very inclusive, and the reason is quite realistic. There are no strong people in the country. After the ancestors became rich, there was no one to take over, so they could only adopt the current strategy.

Fortunately, witches are not a very dangerous race. Using witches as a pillar to support Miriam's living space is indeed a smart move.

The only hidden danger is that Miriam and the witch are not deeply bound together. Who knows if they will separate in the future?

At this point, Fili also made a request to Miriam: "In addition, I want to apply for a business license from the Wang family, and I will also comply with the law and regulations in terms of taxes."

Everything was legal and compliant, and Fili did not force her to do anything. The administrator naturally agreed: "Sir Fili, just let me know about this matter. I will arrange for the Royal Chamber of Commerce to clarify all the relationships tomorrow."

It would be better for the witch to do business in the country. Although it is not a very stable relationship, it also means that the witch is temporarily riding on Miriam's chariot. It is best if the great god Fili appears and she is willing to stay in Miriam and not run around.

After visiting the Wang family, Fili went straight to the Witch Forest to find Hecate.

What Hecate does every day is either studying mushrooms or doing astrology. After Fili came into being, the Wang family contacted her directly less frequently and instead wrote letters to ask about some bizarre things.

When the two met this time, Hecate showed a surprised expression: "It's rare that you would come to me in person. It seems that our relationship has finally become closer."

When Fili heard this, her first reaction was confusion, but she did not ask the reason. Hecate would not say this for no reason. She had deliberately used the fake Morgana story to fool her before. Although she gave her a precious pendant, she also got a lot of information from her. From now on, Fili had to be careful.

Fili touched her chest before sitting down at Hecate's tea table and took a sip of mushroom tea: "I'm new to Miriam too, and I don't know anything about the situation here. I have a lot to learn from seniors like you."

Hecate smiled and said, "Then may I ask, what is your relationship with that store manager?"

Fili held the teacup in both hands: "This question has been asked by more than one person and more than once. There is indeed a special connection between him and me."

Hecate tilted her head, "So you used to only have 'one person at a time'?"

Fili said calmly, "Fake, after all, is a trick, and a stand-in is just a kind of acrobatics. I believe you have seen such tricks in places like circuses. In comparison, isn't secrecy more unpredictable?"

Seeing this, Hecate also sat in front of Fili: "So I think more and more that it's great that you can come to Miriam, Fili. Can I ask, do you believe in the predictions of astrology?"

Chapter 110 Mushroom News

It is said that the ancient stars observe the world and that wisdom from the universe can predict the future.

Astrology is such an ancient and mysterious technology, but so far people's predictions of the future are ambiguous, and most people still use astrology to understand the reality that has already happened.

However, most people do not strongly advocate the advantages of astrology, but instead avoid its disadvantages as much as possible, that is, spiritual pollution.

But the reason why witches like to use astrology is very simple. It is indeed dangerous to talk to the stars, but astrology can help you understand what is happening in the world by staying at home, so you have to use it when you need to. What's more, if a big eyeball really pops up suddenly, the worst that can happen is you can just fight back.

The threat posed by the mysterious existence in the universe to the witch is not significant, but at least it is useless.

This is not because witches who like astrology are particularly powerful, it’s simply because they are open-minded, that’s all.

What many people don't know is that witches' mental magic resistance is above average among most races. Even some gods' messengers and celestial officials are inferior to them. In a world full of villains running around, they can clearly distinguish between humans and ghosts. If they are crazy, then so be it. There are so many black witches in this world.

Now Hecate asked Fili whether she believed in astrological predictions. Fili was good at using astrology to analyze existing facts, but using it to make predictions was more or less like flipping a coin. Since the person asking the question was the famous witch Hecate, Fili nodded slightly in line with the principle of never abandoning or giving up.

Fili continued to drink tea. This body now had a strong resistance to mushrooms and was not afraid of the negative effects of fungi. "I don't really believe in the so-called prophecy, but I will see who made the prophecy. If it's Lady Hecate, I will believe it a little."

Witches don't beat around the bush. A witch like Hecate, who spends most of her time doing astrology, must investigate things at home every day when she encounters something curious. She must have found out a lot about Fili, but it doesn't matter. Even now, Fili still uses the power of deception to protect herself.

Fili is indeed a real witch, but don't try to find out her real age.

Hecate was in a lighthearted mood, "There is a prophecy in the current Morgana family that the head of the family will die at the hands of his own children."

Fili curled her lips: "... quite old-fashioned and boring."

The contemporary Count Morgana's brain has gone bad. He uses the blood curse to control his own flesh and blood. It's no wonder that the children want to kill him.

Then Fili pointed out: "Prophecy, the so-called inevitable outcome, since it is known in advance, it is possible to avoid it. The parties learned of the prophecy and took a series of actions, and these actions eventually led to the predicted results. Some prophecies are like the end of the world, a meteorite that is enough to destroy the planet's ecology falls, and contemporary people are powerless no matter what they do. So, what kind of prophecy does the Morgana family belong to?"

"Which one?" Hecate crossed her fingers. "In fact, Morgana did fall in love with a human, but according to the tradition of the nobility, it is impossible for them to have only one wife. In the later development history of that family, Morgana disappeared. I was in opposition to them in order to investigate this matter. The current head of the family, Abiles, is considered the strongest person under their ancestors. He is a very powerful person and he has the gift of time."

Fili was very surprised. The information she could get about Count Xie from here was very crucial. Since he could manipulate time, why would he plant a mark on his blood relatives? How could such a person believe in the illusory prophecy?

Of course, this is the key point. Hecate pondered for a moment and continued, "Twenty years ago, I fought against the young Abiles and used a secret magic on him, which I called the 'Dart of History'. I cannot analyze the extent of his manipulation of time, but in order to kill him, the characteristic of this magic is that no matter how likely the future is, as long as he arrives at that time, no matter what Abiles does, he will be hit by this 'Dart of History'."

Fili held her chin, unable to imagine what secrets there were between her family and the witch. If there really was a witch among her ancestors, there should have been a portrait or something. She had no idea about that.

Fili stared at Hecate: "Did Abyles find this prophecy himself?"

Hecate calmly drank her tea: "Who knows, this prophecy came about without us realizing it."

Fili spread her hands and said, "In order to avoid being killed, he wanted all the children to die. Should I say he is ruthless or courageous? Then my friend is really a troubled old father."

Hecate raised the cup to the ceiling: "People live in a different environment than we do. It is only natural for them to seek survival."

Fili didn't think so. If that was the case, the scumbag should just get sterilized. He had received a prophecy that he would be killed by his offspring, but he still had so many children. Was he trying to draw a card to see which child would kill him? And then that child would become a demigod and equal to a mortal? Anyway, Fili, who had read many similar stories, was troubled by such a thing. It was really a case of loving father and filial son.

Then the two talked about Arius and Marian. Hecate was not interested in the current gods, and warned Fili to be careful of religious countries. Most holy countries are not very friendly to witches. However, she emphasized that it is not the person but the matter. Many saints and heroes have good character. From a personal standpoint, it is worth making friends with them.

Old things and a few Lingjiulong stables

Finally, when Fili was about to leave, Hecate mentioned someone: "By the way, Lian will be here in a while."

Fili immediately recalled who this person was from the corner of her memory. As an important person that a witch cannot forget, it was like common sense: "When will it arrive?"

Lian, a fox-man mushroom merchant, is said to have collected all kinds of mushrooms during his adventures, making him a walking mushroom encyclopedia.

Hecate looked back at the calendar: "Probably within a week. There must be a lot of special mushrooms this time. Maybe there's what you want."

Fili nodded and opened the door, only to hear Hecate's voice again: "One more thing."

Fili staggered.

Hecate called out, "Is your inn free tomorrow night? I would like to entertain a friend."

What kind of person would Hecate's friend be? Fili agreed to the request out of curiosity, and before leaving, she stopped and looked back to make sure that Hecate didn't stick her head out again before leaving with peace of mind.

The secretive witch is really good at hiding. She can actually test out some of Count Xie's talents. It would be very difficult to deal with her if she became an enemy. No wonder the family always wants to do something to her.

However, there is some good news amidst the mystery. Hecate still cannot see through the false talent, but because of her own strength, she may feel a little uncomfortable with the disguise of the false talent. Fili wants to know why Hecate feels uncomfortable.

In the Witch Forest, you can often see witches' familiars, witches walking together, and witches who voluntarily guard the place.

When Fili was leaving, she heard someone begging for mercy. She curiously went over to take a look and found that an intruder had been caught and was pinned to the ground by two bears. The witch next to him was ready to apply potion.

Regarding a certain mysterious potion, Fili commented that it was a genius invention, and it could only transform a male into a female, and the female would be quite beautiful after the transformation. In terms of its specialness, it was at the top level in the entire potion world.

Every year, there are ordinary people who try to sneak into the Witch Forest. The witches usually let go of children and ordinary people who stray into the forest. But those who impose punishment like this must have been caught two or three times, and it is obvious that they have ulterior motives.

At this time, some people are curious, what if an ordinary girl spy is arranged? That's easy, just eat mushrooms together at the witch's banquet.

People outside may have some misunderstandings about witches. Most witches do not have valuables in their homes, and do not store expensive magic books. Even if spies sneak in, no losses will be caused. The only thing they fear is assassination, kidnapping and poisoning.

When Fili lamented that there was one less handsome guy in the world, she couldn't help but exclaimed, and on the other side of her consciousness, Fili saw the Snow Girl.

The snow girl came with Charlotte. How to describe this snow girl? She fits the stereotype of snow girls in Philin's previous life. She has white hair, blue eyes, and is a widower. Her name is Aislin, which means ice and snow. She is introverted and not very good at communicating with others.

Oops, special memories flooded into his mind, and it took Filin ten seconds to put those strange memories behind him.

Xi Yehua and Charlotte, who were present, did not notice anything unusual about Filin, and were even surprised that Filin did not even look at the Snow Girl for a few seconds. Was he still a hot-blooded boy? Did he like boys?

Upon asking, Filin learned that this was where Aislin's husband lived. Since they could not afford to buy a house, they could only stay in a hotel temporarily. They could use their work to pay for the expenses during this period.

Feilin felt it was a waste to let the snow girl do ordinary work, and soon Feilin thought of doing some business: "I heard that Miss Aislin is good at making snow candy, right? Do you have any finished products?"

"Yes." Aislin took out a bag, which contained the white sugar that met Filin's imagination. It was purer than the one blended with alchemical technology, just like white snow.

Feilin immediately asked everyone to go to the second floor and find Carol. After he told Carol his idea, Carol understood the principle and started working. She built a marshmallow machine-01 in twenty minutes.

There were machines and snow candy, and Feilin demonstrated how to make marshmallows.

Charlotte jumped up and snatched the first ball of marshmallows from Filin's hand. She looked at the machine with wide eyes again: "It doesn't consume much magic power to drive the machine. It can be replenished every day. As long as there is a machine, ordinary people can also make a lot of marshmallows like this, and they taste better than the ones I made with magic."

There are marshmallows in this world. The bedding and pillows in Charlotte's Candy House are marshmallows. However, although they are called marshmallows, they are actually just soft candies that are loose and porous and have a certain degree of elasticity and toughness. They are fundamentally different from the white clouds in the marshmallow machine that roll up like silk.

Carol was more direct. She stretched out her hand to spin the machine and tasted the marshmallow wrapped around her finger. "I really miss the taste of snow candy. Only by combining the magic of the snow girl can such pure sweetness be produced. I closed my eyes and savored the feeling. The light snow in early winter appeared in my mind."

Soon, Filin made two more marshmallows, one for Aislin and one for Nishinoka. Both of them thought the marshmallows looked and tasted good.

Nishinoka was quite impressed: "You are amazing! Can you cook in this way? I lose to you again. Just wait and see. I can also invent something different."

Aislin remained innocent and said, "It's delicious. And it's amazing that so many marshmallows can be made with just a little bit of sugar."

Feilin raised his finger and said, "That's the problem. Miss Aislin's snow candy production is limited, right? Ordinary trading and use will be in short supply, but making marshmallows can maximize production. If Miss Aislin wants to live here, she can make marshmallows regularly in the store, right? I will only take 30% of the share, and the rent will be based on market prices. You just need to owe the rent for the next six months."

Aislin was surprised and asked, "Is it really possible? How about you take more of the share, manager? I don't feel comfortable getting a job and a place to stay without doing anything..."

Feilin was in a good mood: "It's just a piece of cake to help you. I have other things to do."

As he spoke, Filin stared at the blueprint that Carol had just drawn. Being a genius alchemist, he designed it quickly after understanding what marshmallows were. He succeeded in one go without any mistakes. The size of Unit-01 also met Filin's mental standards, and it was not complicated at all, so it could be mass-produced right away.

Filin's real purpose is to start a business: "Carol, let's sell popcorn machines."

Carol looked embarrassed after hearing this: "What a hassle, it's just a small machine, take it if you like it, but don't bother me."

The temporary production of sample machines is for fun, but forget about mass production as your main business.

Feilin picked up the blueprint and said, "Even if you can get a share of the money, you don't want it?"

Carol waved her hand and said, "Don't bother me with anything other than alchemy."

Feilin smiled maliciously: "Forget about the free patent fee. All the profits will belong to me."

After looking at the popcorn, Nishinoka began to take Charlotte to visit the kitchen. She also took out samples of pastries prepared in the past two days, especially recommending rice cakes. As expected, Charlotte showed great interest in this new variety of pastry. Nishinoka used learning and research as bait to attract Charlotte to become the hotel's pastry chef, and the process went very smoothly.

Film took the blueprints to look for other workshops in the city. Carol's blueprints were the work of a master, with clear perspectives, exquisite annotations, and simple machine parts. She used magical technology to solve industrial problems. The workshops outside easily took over the order and made fifty machines first.

Afterwards, Filin went to a famous tavern in the capital to do a market research to see the quality of the alcohol in this world and the adventurers' acceptance of strong liquor. As expected, he also wanted to start a winemaking business.

However, when passing by the knight's arena in the city, he met Serena who had just returned victorious. The knight was pulling a horse and carrying a lot of spoils.

Knight competition is a long-standing and traditional event. Knights participating in the competition usually bet money and equipment on the competition, and the winner takes all. It seems that Serena won the whole game today.

Serena pulled up her helmet: "Sir Flin?"

Feilin looked sideways at today's spoils: "Wow, it's a great harvest."

Serena coughed and said, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you. After all, I just bullied some people who were not even rookies. But I will continue to look for new battlefields and become stronger. When the time comes, I will challenge you again. Sir Filin, I will definitely make you recognize me!"

Philin: “Hmm?”

Why should we recognize it?

Chapter 111 Daily Life of Two People

The family's intelligence allowance came, but Filin didn't feel anything at all. He had made a lot of money helping Selena's family control the drought in the early days, so he didn't have to rely on the allowance to get by. However, at Arius' intelligence base, his intelligence agents had distributed the allowance, and every family had just filled their rice jars. They had to worry about how to get through the second half of the year.

On this basis, the family arranged another task to investigate the missing intelligence agents. Filin was very happy when he got the list. What kind of execution list is this?

However, Philin was too early. He never expected that these new agents were so skilled and experienced. When Philin went to check himself, he was shocked to find only some information about their entry, but no clues about their whereabouts, as if half of them had evaporated from the face of the earth.

At this point, Filin put away his false sense of superiority and sincerely admired the intelligence workers of this era, who were indeed very professional.

Until someone comes for help.

"You said you were an intelligence agent sent by the family..." Feilin looked at the strange beautiful girl in front of him. She was wearing inappropriate men's clothes. His chest was tight. Feilin took the other party's intelligence resume and compared it repeatedly. "Is this photo of you?"

Intelligence agent Sully had a sad face. She really came here to seek help. Now when she contacted her family, no one believed her, or even if they did, they abandoned her: "It was me, but not the me now. I was badly harmed by the witches. They turned me into this."

Feilin remembered the witches who caught the spy and fed him the potion. Is this potion so powerful? Using magic to sense the intelligence agent in front of him, the fluctuation of his soul was a little strange, but his body was indeed that of a girl.

Sully continued, "The potion they used is a flesh-transforming potion that can completely distort the curse power of the flesh. It's not a curse but a body transformation. I don't know how to change back, and I don't know how to return to my family. Lord Filin, you must help me!"

Feilin held his forehead. It would be bad to help this spy. First of all, he couldn't leave him in the hotel. He couldn't let the spy get familiar with the environment here. Who knew how true what he said was? But not helping him was not good either. The emperor was far away. Although the other party had a little embarrassment with his family, like Feilin, sending a letter back was still somewhat convincing. He, Miriam's intelligence officer, couldn't just stand by and watch him die.

After thinking it over, Feilin came up with an idea: "How about this, I'll arrange for you to go to the branch here, the second base, and you go there to set up a new intelligence team. Regarding your identity, I will explain the situation to the family."

The spy almost kowtowed to Filin: "Thank you so much!"

Feilin said quickly, "If you are like this, don't use the name Suli here anymore. Just call yourself Suli. It doesn't make any difference anyway. I will prepare your new ID. Go back and wait. I will send you away when it is ready."

One spy was temporarily appeased and thanked Film profusely.

As for the intelligence station branch, of course there is no such thing. Filin just decided to set it up. The purpose is to accommodate these intelligence personnel. In the future, they will be responsible for handling intelligence in some remote areas, and Fili will not have to make up so many stories herself.

Seriously, in the more than a year that Filin has worked at Miriam, he has typed enough words to write a novel.

Filin intends to prevent these intelligence agents from ever returning to their family.

Philin held the investigation list sent by his family and couldn't help but sneer.

Sword Witch Surad is a practical witch I met in a border city. She is one of the few who believes that witches must work in an organized manner. She spontaneously founded the witches' KGB. Although the staff is sparse and is filled with a large number of familiars, Surad's enthusiasm for work cannot be denied.

In order to understand the list, he temporarily created a false clone of Fili and brought it to the border city.

This is the third clone created in addition to the two real bodies. Since it is a third set of thinking, the operating pressure is high. Feilin's plan is to let it do some odd jobs. This time the clone can switch between the two identities at any time.

The purpose of this trip, in addition to allowing Surad to capture and drug those spies, is to buy a tavern from the succubus Arabelle, renovate it, and accommodate the spies.