Zuo Dao Becomes a God Starting from American Horror

Chapter 48: Teaching True Genius

Soon, Mary and her family found a house with a yard near Louis's house. Frank, who used to be an assistant professor at a well-known university, also found a teaching job at the school and officially settled down.

However, Mary did not go to the same school as Louis and his friends. For her, doing so was a waste of time, so she skipped a grade and went to a better private high school, and planned to attend classes at MIT in a few years.

Fortunately, they are neighbors. Although they don’t study together, they still have time to spend together.

However, Louis soon taught Mary a special "game".

Behind Louis's house, Mary looked curiously at the steaming crucible, as well as the various herbs, dried lizards, leaves and other strange things beside it.

"Mary, do you remember Emilia?"

Fear flashed in Mary's eyes and her body trembled slightly.

How could they possibly forget? The old witch Emilia was simply a shadow in their lives.

Blood, limbs, slaps, and greedy eyes...

"Don't be afraid, she's dead."

Louis patted her shoulder, and as Emilia's Punisher, he successfully calmed her down.

"Mary, have you ever heard of alchemy? Look at these."

Louis pointed to the various materials on the scene again.

"These are actually used to make witchcraft potions."

"Witchcraft...potion?"

"Yes, witchcraft potions are a kind of herbal potion developed by witches and derived from alchemy. They have countless mysterious effects."

Mary immediately understood that Louis might have received something from Emilia and wanted to make these potions.

But why let yourself come?

Let me practice?
Seeing Mary's puzzled look, Louis chose to confess to her directly and wanted her to learn how to make potions.

Louis had no intention of hiding anything about his future right-hand man. After all, doing so would do more harm than good, and he was sure of it.

"Wow, that's really interesting."

Mary's eyes sparkled as she looked at the formula Louis brought out in surprise. After calculating it once, she couldn't wait to look at Louis.

"Can I try it now?"

"of course."

Since returning to the family, his grandfather's support for him has obviously increased a lot, otherwise he would not have taken out the more than 500,000 US dollars so casually.

So it was really easy to prepare dozens of these materials without worrying about waste.

Mary then began the operation, while Louis stood by without saying a word.

He needed to see how talented Mary was in this area. Mathematics was indeed a tool for analyzing everything, and it was also a major pillar of the alchemy system, but it ultimately depended on actual practice.

Unsurprisingly.

Mary failed in her first attempt at refining.

But Louis' eyes were full of surprise, because she failed because she didn't cut her finger in time at the last step because she was afraid of seeing blood.

And every step she took before was precise and correct, without any mistakes!
"I'm sorry, Louis, I messed up." Mary lowered her head and apologized to Louis.

"No, you did great. Excellent."

Louis gave her a thumbs up and praised her.

"This time you'll have my blood."

Soon, Mary started refining again. This time, her refining was still accurate, and she had a perfect grasp of the timing and quantity, and finally succeeded in one go.

Louis smiled as he watched the potion quickly transform into a light red liquid.

But at this moment, Mary touched her chin as if she was thinking, or doing mental arithmetic.

One minute later.

She picked up the various materials again and asked Louis for a small electronic scale.

ten minutes later.

Another potion was born, but the materials required for this potion were nearly one-fifth less!

Louis was speechless and looked at Mary with a complicated expression, "Why is that?"

Mary smiled proudly and said, "Hey, I felt something was wrong the first time I did it. Some parts of it were very precise, but the quantities required in others were a bit vague."

"I calculated the speed at which their mass was dissipating at that moment..."

"It's a pity that I don't know much about chemistry right now. Otherwise, I might be able to optimize the effect. Well, the prerequisite is to conduct some experiments to know what can be omitted and what is necessary..."

"..."

Then, Mary said a few equations that Louis couldn't understand, and talked about variable control, calculations, etc. Her endless talk made Louis even more silent.

Is this genius?

Compared to a bona fide science genius like Mary, I, a guy with an adult soul, am nothing more than that, having only gained a dozen years of mediocre knowledge by chance. (The protagonist was able to succeed on the first try, and he himself is very talented in this area. He lacks a comparison object, so he is blinded by his own shortcomings.)

Maybe he can only show off his prowess in metaphysics?

Take a deep breath and suppress that imbalance.

It’s okay, the more powerful Mary is, the better. Doesn’t this just prove that it’s right for me to help her? She is my future master of potions, alchemy, and logistics manager!

"Okay, Mary, how about we study these things together?"

"Really, Louis?" Mary looked at Louis with some surprise.

"This is much more interesting than studying in school."

Looking at Mary who was so excited as if she was treating it as an interesting game, Louis turned around and made a phone call.

It's for my grandfather.

Tell Grandfather to collect some blood from people who are loyal to the family and can keep it strictly confidential, and also to find a batch of puppies.

As for the purpose of doing this, it is naturally to strengthen the family's strength. He also knows about the family's current difficulties. The emergence of that bill means that the US government is suppressing the gangs.

One of the important tactics used by gangs is to use bribery, threats and other means to control officials in order to form alliances, but the emergence of this bill undoubtedly breaks this tactic of gangs.

As the strongest gang under the big gangs, the Kano family is actually quite conspicuous and its crackdown is quite strong. Before leaving the family, he heard from his grandfather that he was already arranging the laundering of the industry.

By the way, I cursed those beasts at the IRS.

Damn, the IRS even showed up out of nowhere to get involved in the mafia's money laundering! It's unbelievable!

In addition, recently Mexican and Latin American forces have been trying to transport drugs to Florida to expand their influence, causing unrest in the area. As a local force, the Cano family is naturally the first line of conflict, and the previous kidnapping of Louis is proof of this.

That’s why Louis is doing what he does now.

The grandfather on the other end of the phone didn't ask Louis what he wanted to do, but simply agreed.

After hanging up the phone, Louis' eyes were a little cold.

Just wait, when I grow up, I will personally go to Mexico, the base of your gang, and make a river of blood flow to repay you for the kidnapping!
(End of this chapter)