Lin Yiran: "I'm not going to deny it, but we need to clarify some questions. What if he accidentally ate something else and got poisoned? Are we supposed to take the blame? We can compensate you, but everything must be fair. If all else fails, you can call the police and let the security bureau handle this matter!"

The woman wailed, "You're bullying us, a widow and her child! You're trying to deny that you killed my husband! You!"

"Mom, you'd better answer the store manager's questions honestly. If you can answer them, we will get justice for you and will definitely not let the store manager off easily! But if you don't say anything now, we can't help you. You have to tell us the truth, right?"

Seeing everyone's sympathy for her, the woman instantly lost her fear and began to put on an act. Sobbing, she said, "He ate it, he only ate a tiny bite, he didn't dare take a big bite, and that tiny bite killed him! I even spent a hundred star coins to buy it for him. And look!"

As she spoke, the woman pulled out a device from her brain: "Listen for yourselves and see if there is any poison in this food."

Then the machine scanned the lunchbox in front of it and said, "Beep beep, this food is poisonous. Please do not eat it."

"Beep beep, this food is poisonous, please do not eat it."

The woman then added, "This is a testing kit I bought before. It can detect toxins in any food. You see, this can't be faked!"

"Huh? This, this, is there really poison in this?"

"Yeah, it really is poisonous? What will happen to my grandson? Oh dear!"

Lin Yiran narrowed her eyes and, taking advantage of the silence, said, "I'd like to know how your family, which is so poor, could afford to buy a testing machine costing over 100,000 yuan to test whether there's any poison in this food?"

"I dare ask you, those in power, would you spend tens of thousands of yuan to buy a testing machine that you hardly ever use and keep it at home?"

The people around were stunned for a moment after hearing this, then began to whisper among themselves: "Hey, that seems to be true. What ordinary family would buy this? Hundreds of thousands of star coins? They could buy some food instead. Did your family buy one?"

"I've never even heard of it, let alone bought it!"

The woman suddenly panicked: "No, no, I misspoke, I didn't buy this!"

Then, realizing he had said the wrong thing, he said, "I borrowed this, I borrowed it from the research institute. How could we afford to buy this? A kind person lent it to me because they saw how pitiful we were!"

Lin Yiran was furious: "Are you sure you really won't tell?"

The woman said, "What are you talking about? Didn't I already say it? You killed my husband. Now the poison has been tested, and there's plenty of evidence. What else do you have to say?"

Lin Yiran decisively stepped forward and snatched the testing machine from the woman's hand, startling her into screaming.

"What are you doing? What are you doing? Are you trying to kill me? Let go! That's mine! Let go!"

Lin ignored her and instead flipped her wrist to find a button on the bottom of the testing machine and turned it on.

"Since you say there's poison in my lunchbox, let's see what kind of poison it is."

The testing machine then passes over the food once.

"Beep, trace amounts of Sumeru flower toxin detected. Ingestion can cause fainting and create the illusion of brain death. The poisoned person's lips turn purplish-black, their eyes become dark, and their face turns pale. An easily identifiable characteristic is that there are bluish-purple bleeding spots on the fingernails, which disappear when pressed."

The woman was stunned for a long time after hearing this, and then said, "So what? There is indeed poison in this food, but who knows if you poisoned it?"

Lin Yiran: "My reason for doing this is to poison your husband with this unknown poison, and then wait for you to come and extort money from us?"

"Do I have nothing better to do?"

Now that things have come to this, the truth is clear.

"Actually, there's more to this than just one question. The sap of the Sumeru flower is very difficult for ordinary people to collect, and it has a shelf life of one day and one night. After that, it will evaporate on its own. You can check our store's surveillance footage. The only time this woman came to buy our boxed meals was three days ago."

If we had hidden poison in the boxed meals beforehand, the poison would have evaporated after a day and a night, and there wouldn't be any problem even if someone ate them.

"So there's only one answer to this whole thing: someone poisoned this lunchbox yesterday. As for who it was, we don't know."

"I just called the police, and they'll be here soon. I'm sure they'll be able to find the real culprit who 'murdered' your husband!"

Upon hearing this explanation, the woman collapsed to the ground, and Lin Yiran still won the war.

However, the woman wanted to make one last desperate struggle. As the police dragged her away, she laughed loudly, "Did you think this food would be edible even if she didn't poison it?"

"Have you all forgotten how much violent energy these mutated plants and animals contain? Let alone eating a whole basin of it, even a single bite could cause you to explode and die! You can only wait to die if you eat the food from their shop!"

"So what if the food is cheap? Think about your lives, would you still dare to eat her food!"

Lin Yiran frowned.

The situation isn't looking good. She observed everyone's expressions and noticed that although they weren't saying anything, their eyes were darting around, as if they were genuinely frightened.

Yes, they also want to eat well, but if it requires risking their lives, then they need to think twice. This is not about money at all.

I've been coming here too often before; it looks like I won't be able to eat here as often in the future.

Lin still had a premonition that her store's business might plummet starting tomorrow.

The woman's words were like a nail driven into their hearts, both hurting them and reminding them how despicable they were.

They can't eat the food that the upper class eats, which doesn't contain violent energy, but they still want to emulate them.

So I chose Lin Yiran, a small shop that wins with its delicious food.

"I heard the food at this food court is even better than the food at Zhenyaoge!"

"That tastes exactly the same as what we had when we traveled to the Second Star System. It's so delicious!"

Zhenyaoge: A gourmet restaurant that preys only on the upper class.

A serving of cold radish salad costs thousands of star coins, which is unaffordable for the poor and completely unimportant to the rich.

They finally found a substitute, but now they still have to be wary of the violent energy in the food. Clearly, gourmet restaurants like Zhenyao Pavilion are simply out of reach for poor people like them!