He had never considered that the Red-Gold Elixir could be handled by someone else, but watching Greed God now, Xu Xiaoshou suddenly realized that perhaps he could free up some labor.
"But why is this cat being so attentive?"
Closing his eyes and observing Greed God's movements again, Xu Xiaoshou faintly sensed something ominous.
Sure enough, before long, he saw Greed God lift the lid off one of the cauldrons.
That batch had clearly not failed. A rich medicinal fragrance filled the air.
Yet after glancing left and right and seeing no one around, the little fellow opened its mouth and sucked in the entire cauldron of pills! Xu Xiaoshou was left dizzy from the sight.
"Good heavens!"
"Unsolicited attentiveness hides either treachery or theft... the ancients truly did not deceive me."
He did not get angry immediately. Instead, he continued observing.
Over more than a quarter-hour of "Perception," he saw Greed God uncover over half the pots and swallow roughly one-tenth of the successfully refined pills from that period.
"Greedy enough!"
It had to be said, one-tenth mixed among thirty thousand pill cauldrons was indeed rather inconspicuous.
Greed God was simply too fast.
If one did not watch carefully, even after it lifted a lid, it would be hard to tell whether the pills inside had succeeded or failed.
But calculated this way...
Xu Xiaoshou did the math.
The medicinal ingredients he had received were twice the required amount.
And Greed God's pill-refining success rate was not low, standing at over seventy percent.
Under such circumstances, even if this little white cat was gluttonous enough to eat one-tenth of the successful pills...
That meant that from thirty portions of ingredients, while Gold-Rich Trading Company needed ten finished portions, Greed God could refine twenty-one portions. Subtract the two or three