Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil.

Chapter 337 Revolution is like crossing a river by feeling the stones
With the huge amount of funds from the pure-blood families, Levid could finally start many of his experiments without restraint.

So, during the rest of the holiday, Li Weide often traveled back and forth between the safe house and the Knockturn Alley laboratory.

After Li Weide repaired the two pairs of vanishing cabinets, he placed one in the safe house and the other in Knockturn Alley.

Of course, he didn't put it directly in the laboratory in Knockturn Alley, but in a small room outside the laboratory with the Fidelius Charm.

When he first built this laboratory, Li Weide specifically left this room empty and did not include it in the Loyalty Curse.

In other words, even if someone in the safe house came to the room in Knockturn Alley through the Vanishing Cabinet, they would not find the door leading to the laboratory.

In order to prevent the people in Knockturn Alley from discovering this small room, Livid also set a Fidelius Charm for this small room...

Although the process is a bit troublesome, it has indeed reached the limit in terms of safety.

……

Because Professor Slughorn's negotiations with the Ethiopian Ministry of Magic are about to succeed.

So, these days, the experiments Li Weide conducts mainly focus on biological experiments.

Especially after obtaining a large amount of funds, Livid once again improved his super microscope while wearing the Ravenclaw crown.

So far, Li Weide has two methods to breed basilisks.

The first method is to directly hatch a basilisk baby according to the basilisk's hatching method.

The second method is to directly use a super microscope to observe the complete genome of the basilisk, and then edit the genome of the snake with the most similar genome based on the basilisk's genome, and finally clone it to cultivate a basilisk that is exactly the same as the basilisk in the secret room in a culture dish!
Relatively speaking, the first method is simpler, but the resulting basilisk baby does not have the magic power of the Millennium Basilisk, and the materials obtained from them may not have the magical power of the Millennium Basilisk.

As for the second method, the operation will be more difficult, but once successful, the bred basilisk will be exactly the same as the one in the secret room!
In this way, once he succeeds for the first time, Li Weide will be able to achieve mass production of Millennium Basilisk materials!

In fact, Li Weide prefers the second approach.

As an Oriental, mass production is a hobby ingrained in me, just like farming.

But the second way needs luck to succeed...

If you are lucky, it can be completed in a day or two. If you are unlucky, it may not be successful in a year or two.

Because in order to clone the Millennium Basilisk, we must first find the snake with the highest similarity to the Basilisk's genome!

The snakes with the highest genome similarity have fewer genetic sequences that differ from the basilisk, so fewer genetic sequences need to be edited, and the time spent is shorter...

Li Weide decided to carry out both methods at the same time. After all, the roosters needed for the first method had been almost bred, and they only needed to be fed with the transformation potion.

The second method requires a slow comparison, but there is no need to rush. With Tom here, he has no shortage of live snakes as experimental subjects.

Levitra hasn't finished comparing the bag of snakes that he asked Tom to catch in the Forbidden Forest.

However, progress has been very limited. So far, the closest genome to the basilisk is the viper, but the similarity is only 89%...

This means that if Li Weide wanted to directly edit the viper genome and turn it into the basilisk genome, he would have to edit more than 100,000 different gene sequences...

Every time this happened, Li Weide would feel a little sad, wishing he had an experimental team that he could completely trust.

Li Weide, a completely trustworthy person, could create it, but it would be difficult to find someone with the necessary biological knowledge...

Even if Levitra wanted to kidnap a few Muggle biologists, Muggles could not see the peculiarities in the basilisk's genes, so it would be of almost no help to Levitra.

"How could the Dark Lord earn his own money... In other words, how could the Dark Lord do his own research?"

That day, Li Weide in the laboratory was scratching his hair frantically.

Even the future Voldemort would invent some potions himself, but most of the potion inventions were handed over to Snape for development!

"It seems I have to hurry up and train my own lab assistant..." Levid sat dejectedly on the lab chair. "Tom is no good. He only wants to become stronger and has no interest in experimental research... Besides, Tom's heart is getting brighter and brighter now... Damn it, who can believe that Voldemort is going to become Dumbledore!"

Finally, feeling that he was about to burn out, Li Weide decided to go home and rest.

After cleaning up the laboratory, Levid Apparated into the small room, passed through the vanishing cabinet and returned to the safe house.

In the safe house, Toby and the others had long been accustomed to Li Weide's sudden appearances.

After seeing Li Wei De appear in the living room, Toby quickly served him dinner and the letters that arrived today.

Li Weide, with a tired face, sat down, prepared to eat something and read the letter again.

Opposite him, Tom and Jerry were each sitting in front of an easel, using their hands and feet to paint frantically with their pens...

Toby was very pleased with how well-behaved they were.

In fact, Li Weide had already contacted a film company in the United States for them. Originally, Li Weide thought he would have to use nightmare magic or a soul-stealing curse.

But unexpectedly, the Muggle company called MGM Studios, after receiving Levitra's submission, actually decided to accept this novel idea directly...

Li Weide had to send Andrews to the United States again to contact the people from this Muggle company.

After a few rounds of negotiations, the contract was signed... Look, these two are working on the draft!

The first draft was completed by these two guys, and then the Muggle company added details frame by frame, and finally made it into an animation...

Li Weide was not very clear about the details, after all, it was not something he was in charge of.

Now, Elena is going to be a transfer student, which means that Andrews doesn't need to spend too much time on Elena's homework.

Therefore, it would be better to let Andrews find something to do when he is free, so that this guy won’t be too idle and eventually run back to the Soviet Union for revenge.

After finishing his dinner, Li Weide opened the letter and started reading.

There are not many letters today, most of them are greetings from friends.

Among them, Professor Slughorn's letter made Levid somewhat excited.

Because his negotiations with the Ethiopian Ministry of Magic were complete.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Magic will provide the necessary space and enact the legal regulations for the breeding farm...

Li Weide and his team only need to provide a political donation of 10,000 gold galleons to the Ethiopian Ministry of Magic every year.

Seeing this, Livid had to admire Professor Slughorn's negotiation skills...

Originally, Li Weide thought that he would give the Ethiopian magic part a red, but now it turned out to be a direct "buyout".

All it takes is 10,000 Galleons a year, and they can do whatever they want...

Only after reading the end of the letter did Li Weide understand why the Ethiopian Ministry of Magic chose to buy out instead of distributing dividends.

Because Professor Slughorn was talking about a young basilisk...

It takes more than one or two years for a baby basilisk to grow into an adult one, which means you have to wait for a long time before you can get any benefits.

Therefore, the Ethiopian Ministry of Magic, which was in urgent need of gold Galleons, eagerly chose the buyout option.

In Li Weide's opinion, this is already a very satisfactory plan. After all, he is not short of money at all now!
But Professor Slughorn was somewhat dissatisfied, because in his opinion, the farm would not be able to make much profit in the short term, and ten thousand a year was too much!
After reading it, Levid immediately took the parchment and wrote a reply to Professor Slughorn, reporting to him the recent situation and telling him that he didn't have to worry even if there was no profit in the short term, after all, he was not short of money now!

Professor Slughorn naturally understood the answer when he saw the letter. After all, it was he who had handed the formula for the dragon pox potion to St. Mungo's.

After dinner, Li Weide, who was too tired, went back to his room to rest.

After taking the tranquilizing potion, Li Weide slept for a long time and did not wake up until noon the next day.

When he finished washing up and walked down the stairs refreshed, he found that Tom had come in at some point.

Li Weide noticed the suitcase next to him...

"How did you come?"

"School starts in a few days. You have a fireplace here...it will be more convenient to go to the station." Tom explained casually.

"What about your ancestors? And Elena?"

"Professor Dumbledore said only the two of us know about this," Tom said calmly. "That's why I didn't bring the old man. As for Elena... Andrews will naturally take her to Hogwarts in his carriage when the time comes. This is also Professor Dumbledore's arrangement. It seems that transfer students have their own traditions."

Li Weide couldn't help but touch his nose, "Tom, you really are... talking about Professor Dumbledore all the time..."

"Professor Dumbledore has taught me a lot. Is there anything wrong with me trusting him? Besides, he is not like someone who always tries to cheat me." Tom said seriously.

"Well, it seems that you are Dumbledore's favorite student, Tom... You should say the same thing next time you meet Grindelwald." Levid laughed out loud.

Tom didn't quite understand. He pointed at the cat and mouse who were still working on their manuscripts and said, "You...really treating them like slaves?"

"The kittens and mice are full of energy. It's the right age for them to work hard." Li Weide yawned and started eating lunch.

"It seems you've been quite busy lately... So... have you figured out how to start your so-called revolution? And what about Hydra..."

"Tom, revolution is like crossing a river by feeling the stones. You can't rely on imagination alone to find a path. We can't rush this; we need to consider the current state of society... Did you see Grindelwald's previous so-called revolutionary slogans? They were absolutely based on his own imagination, completely disregarding the current situation. That's why his unrealistic ideas failed after being put into practice... We can't follow his example and make the mistake of leaning to the left and recklessly advancing..."

(End of this chapter)