“When I had food poisoning last time, it didn’t happen so quickly. Food needs time to digest before it reacts after being eaten. You can’t expect to have a reaction while you’re eating it. Also, food poisoning usually causes symptoms like diarrhea, vomiting, and fever, but they didn’t. They just had stomach aches after eating it. Everyone who ate it had stomach aches, it was more like…”
"Gambling?" Lin Wei frowned. "Stop guessing. Where are you now? In that case, the shop definitely can't be touched before the police arrive."
“I felt something was wrong, so I stayed at the store and asked the store manager to take the receptionist to the hospital with me. Wang Ying had already seen the news online and just called me. After explaining the situation, she rushed to the hospital.”
"Okay, I'll be right there at the shop. You keep watch over the shop, don't let anyone in, and don't let anyone destroy anything inside."
"Um."
After hanging up the phone, everyone who had heard the news immediately asked, "Sister, are you alright?"
"Yeah, Weiwei, betting? What kind of betting?"
"It should be fine. I'll go to the store first. As long as the person isn't dead, the hospital will treat them as needed and compensate them accordingly."
The brand image will likely suffer a severe blow afterward.
If a food store has food safety issues, who would dare to eat there?
Shen Jize said, "I'll go with you. If anything happens, it'll be easier to find someone to smooth things over."
"OK."
"Sister, let's go too."
The three children immediately got up to follow.
Lin Xiaomeng, however, wouldn't allow it, saying, "What are you going there for? Don't cause any trouble."
Lin Yuan ignored him, saying, "How could we be causing trouble? Aunt, don't you remember what we discussed before? Normally, we should have eaten here for lunch, and we already mentioned it. It was you who told us not to eat at home."
Lin Wei paused. "What do you mean by that? Is this something aimed at you?"
The Su brothers nodded hesitantly. "We have some doubts. After all, what we're researching right now... well, it's quite possible... well, we can't go into too much detail."
The thought of their own children almost suffering and their lives hanging in the balance is unbearable for parents.
“Let’s go together.”
There was no room for refusal; several cars set off simultaneously and arrived at the buffet restaurant in no time.
When they arrived, a large crowd of onlookers had gathered three or four deep in front of the buffet restaurant.
Sure enough, even during the Lunar New Year, there were still plenty of people who loved to join in the fun.
As soon as the group squeezed in, An Jing saw her; Zhang Yan Yan had even arrived there a moment earlier.
"The police have already checked inside. I'll express my suspicions and see what their findings are."
They couldn't get in, so they just stayed outside.
Finally, half an hour later, the police officer in charge came out.
"The store will definitely have to be closed temporarily. We will need to check with the supplier. There are indeed drugs in the food, but we can only tell you what they are after testing."
When the police officers told them, they spoke very softly, as if they were worried that it would have an impact on them.
Anyone with eyes can see that what they detected had obvious problems.
This made Lin Yuan and his two companions restless.
They first showed their work IDs to the police officer, then explained their suspicions, and finally contacted their supervisor.
In short, no one expected such a roundabout way of things.
But it was precisely because these special staff members were involved that a breakthrough was found for this difficult-to-explain matter.
The higher-level unit immediately sent people to take over the matter, and they received the test report that same evening.
All the food in their restaurant had been laced with rat poison.
There are many types of rat poison, some specifically for rats, and others concentrated and high-end for other uses.
What was added to the dish was that concentrated, high-end medicine.
Normally, they should have experienced diarrhea and vomiting, but the medicine was so strong that all the customers skipped this step after eating.
The innocent victims at the hospital were handed over to higher authorities, who were responsible for providing them with the best possible treatment.
And inside the store—
There were quite a few unexpected events.
"All the surveillance footage has been deleted, even the footage from the past month is gone."
The investigators asked, "You don't usually watch the surveillance footage, do you?"
"The store's surveillance cameras are real-time and are displayed on the electronic screen every day, but we generally don't check the footage unless something is missing or we need to review it."
"What about the suspicious persons?" the investigators asked again.
"It's hard to say. After all, it's a buffet restaurant, and there are people coming and going every day. We really don't know. Besides, everyone comes here to eat, and almost everyone comes into contact with the food..."
In short, it's practically impossible to investigate from this angle.
“But one thing is certain,” Lin Yuan said, “these people came for us.”
"Let me see if any of our people can recover the video. In any case, you all need to be careful during this time."
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After a busy day and night, the group finally returned to Lin Xiaomeng's place.
Zhang Min had been holding back all the way home, and finally she spoke up, "Aren't you employees? Is your job really that dangerous? What exactly do you do? Why would someone want to assassinate you? This is just like those spy dramas on TV, it's too scary."
Lin Wei asked in surprise, "Oh, they don't know what your job entails?"
"Not only that, no one else knows except you. And you only found out after we applied to and got approval from our superiors."
Furthermore, the higher-ups also wanted to probe Lin Wei to see if she had any other intriguing ideas.
We Chinese are always honest; if you can say it, I can make it.
But Lin Wei never expected things to turn out this way.
"So nobody knows what you're doing? Why didn't you remind me? What if I told someone?"
Su Si'an laughed and said, "No, Sister Weiwei is busy with work. I'm afraid you'll forget about it as soon as we finish talking."
Lin Wei choked. The facts were indeed true, but she felt it was somewhat impolite to say it so openly.
Zhang Min asked anxiously, "So what exactly do you do for a living? Can't you tell us?"
"Well, it's not impossible right now, since it's going to be listed soon."
“We research unmanned equipment. Sister Weiwei gave us the inspiration to design an unmanned small boat, and then used a chip to allow the small boat to travel freely on the sea.”
"Hmm, so what?"
"Then, we put a missile on that small boat. It could... well... well... our contribution was quite significant. We later submitted some other ideas, also related to this area. I guess that's why we got targeted."
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