Chapter 806

Zhao Chi sighed.

But he knew he was already luckier than most people.

There was nothing to complain about.

Without resting, he found Tang Ruan and continued crafting.

But this time it wasn't for making iron armor.

"We're going to make Gao Liang fire oil? But the armor gap is still huge right now." Tang Ruan couldn't help but ask.

"It's fine. The current situation of the entire clan, even the whole village, is very poor. Gao Liang fire oil might help others, and we can trade the fire oil for iron armor."

"Oh, got it. Please come in, my lord."

"Mm, you'd better bring a hat. The environment in the oil refinery is terrible too. After one batch of oil, your hair will stick together."

"Okay, I'll go get one."

The oil refinery was in Peach Blossom Village.

Oil refinery team leader Chen Hua, together with the female oil workers, had produced quite a lot of fire oil.

But they didn't yet have the ability to make Gao Liang fire oil. Forcing the production had a very high failure rate and would waste a lot of rare materials.

For now, Zhao Chi still had to craft it himself.

Before even going in, he smelled a strong oily scent mixed with some rotting stench.

It was the smell of rendering that stinking snow bear fat.

He entered the oil refinery.

The oil smoke and stench inside were even thicker.

Even though the surrounding windows were all opened and several skylights had been cut into the roof, everything was still greasy everywhere.

Chen Hua wore a leather hat, a leather apron, and a pair of leather shoes.

Apart from these, she wore no other clothes.

Her smooth back was fully exposed.

She was the only person in the entire oil refinery.

"Oh? Tang Ruan? Are you here to pick up fire oil?"

Tang Ruan smiled and said, "I'm here to keep you company, my lord is here too."

Chen Hua nodded and said, "Got it. It's perfect timing, our Gao Liang fire oil is almost used up, we really do need to make some more."

Zhao Chi asked, "Where are the others? Are they all helping out at Penglai Village?"

"Yes," Chen Hua nodded. "They were transferred away by Fang Li's construction team. Luckily we made quite a lot of cooking oil and regular fire oil before, so we can hold out for a few more days."

Tang Ruan pointed at Chen Hua: "Why are you only wearing an apron? Won't you get oily all over like this?"

Chen Hua said, "Can't be helped. Wearing clothes is even more uncomfortable, and I'd have to wash them frequently. It's better this way. If I weren't afraid of oil splashing on my skin, I'd simply not wear anything at all."

Tang Ruan laughed and said, "Yesterday at the iron armor shop, Ding Dang and the others also dressed very simply like this, but they wore pants, which is more than you."

Chen Hua nodded: "The iron armor shop's environment isn't good either, just as hot, and even more choking. Not wearing clothes is the right call. Anyway, it's all women around, so it doesn't matter. There's only one man, my lord, and he wouldn't mind even if he wanted to look. My lord, look!"

Chen Hua flipped up her apron.

Her whole body was greasy, somewhat like the luster of Tang Ruan's hardened Jade Skin Armor.

Tang Ruan laughed and said, "How are you like Sister Gu? But feeling you all oily like this actually makes your skin look more delicate."

Chen Hua nodded: "Really? Come feel it, it's really slick and smooth."

Tang Ruan didn't stand on ceremony and went straight for it.

Chen Hua laughed and said, "My lord, can you feel it too? How's the texture?"

Zhao Chi sighed: "The texture is indeed nice, but aren't you wearing the Super-Efficiency inner shirt?"

"Of course I am, but it's in the outfit slot right now. What I'm showing is the equipment slot. I can't bear to switch to the outfit, otherwise that would get oily too."

"Got it, then let's get to work."

There were quite a lot of finished fire oil products now.

Zhao Chi could directly improve the fire oil, cutting out one step.

It could boost efficiency quite a bit.

Now with the High-Efficiency inner shirt and Zhao Chi's super-high perception, the crafting speed had greatly increased.

Zhao Chi kept repeating crafting, soaking in the hot spring, and sleeping.

Until 9 AM the next day, a total of 32 hours had passed, consuming 105 Speed-Work Talismans and 140 various medicines.

He had produced 644 pots of Super-Bright fire oil in total.

Each pot was about 3 liters, totaling 1,932 liters, sold by the liter as well.

If calculated at 20 silver coins per liter, that came to 386 gold coins.

Of course, this was only the gross profit.

The costs of Speed-Work Talismans, medicines, and rare materials still had to be deducted.

Especially the 105 Speed-Work Talismans, the cost was not low.

After all, this counted as exchanging money for time. There was no way around the extra cost, he could only accept it.

And there was quite a bit of tax money too!

In the current situation... are taxes still being paid?

He could ask third clan brother Zhao Cang about it later.

Calculated this way, the profit was only 162 gold coins.

Actually, it wasn't a small amount.

There weren't many Speed-Work Talismans left now, so he needed to buy some too.

He should keep some of this ultra-bright fire oil for his own use.

Then he'd sell 1,800 liters and keep 132 liters for himself.

After experimentation.

A torch dipped in 100 milliliters of fire oil can burn for one hour.

The remaining 132 liters can make 1,320 ultra-bright torches, enough for now.

If it's not enough later, he can make more.

Zhao Chi tapped Zhao Cang's contact list.

Zhao Chi 【Third Brother, do you have time? I need to turn in a batch of torches. Here's the list—give me clearance to come over.】

After a while.

Zhao Cang 【Huh? The illumination range of these torches is actually increased by an extra 1,000%? Where did they come from? Did you confiscate them from those bandits?】

Zhao Chi hesitated for a moment.

He had originally wanted to admit straight out that he made them himself.

But there were too many questions he couldn't explain.

After all, this was ultra-improved fire oil, and theoretically Zhao Chi's oil-refining ability shouldn't have been able to produce it.

Moreover, even ultra-improved fire oil shouldn't have had this kind of attribute effect.

After all, this was the result after Zhao Chi transferred the data.

Thinking it over, he still couldn't admit it directly.

Then he'd just make something up.

Zhao Chi 【How should I put it—by a fortunate coincidence, I got to know a master-level oil refiner, but the other party doesn't want too many people to know.】