In addition, there was an even more serious issue: if she reported it to the police now, it would very likely alert the enemy.
Once she called the police, the Food and Drug Administration would highly likely go over to inspect the place.
In order to deal with the inspection, the owner of the raw-marinated shop would definitely use fresh ingredients during this period.
However, once the storm blew over, the other party would inevitably use inferior materials to pass off as good ones once again.
Over these past few days, Lin Wanwan had already figured out some patterns of the Time Mailbox.
One very important point among them was that her subjective will would not affect the contents of the emails.
These past two days, she had been constantly hinting to herself to mention more money-making information in the emails.
However, to Lin Wanwan’s great disappointment, the future emails did not mention relevant content as she had wished.
Combined with the previous email, where it was clearly an emergency measure she had temporarily learned online, her future self actually thought that it was something she had learned in a college elective course.
This could indirectly prove that her future self on the future timeline was unaware that she possessed a golden finger.
Otherwise, the email content would definitely not consist of only a few words every day.
The reason why the poisoning incident was mentioned in the future email this time was, in all probability, because she had just eaten that shop’s Chaoshan raw-marinated seafood today and had diarrhea.
Therefore, it caught her future self’s attention.
Once the incident was delayed due to her report, that meant even if a poisoning incident occurred at this raw-marinated shop again, she would in all probability have no way of knowing in advance.
She walked over to the window and looked down at the traffic coming and going on the street below. The evening breeze seeped in through the gaps of the screen window, yet it couldn’t blow away the suffocation in her chest.
At this moment, her heart felt as if it were gripped by an invisible hand; every beat seemed heavier than before.
This poisoning incident was different from Evans’s situation.
Even without her help, the worst outcome for Evans would simply be being rushed to the hospital for emergency rescue.
Moreover, Evans’s allergy incident had a whole two days as a buffer period.
She even had time to confirm whether her actions were successful through the next day’s email.
That was why she had dared to use this matter with nothing to fear in order to gain greater benefits for herself.
But what about now?
Over 80 severely ill patients, plus the life of an unborn child.
The severity of this matter far exceeded Evans’s situation.
The future email only mentioned the tragic result, but didn’t state whether it specifically occurred on the 17th or 18th, let alone whether there was a way to stop it.
She couldn’t even pin down the most basic time node, so how would she dare to act carelessly?
Lin Wanwan raised her hand and pressed her temples, trying to calm herself down.
At this moment, she had no thoughts of seeking personal gain; all she had was how to stop this tragedy.
The cold night wind quickly brought her back to composure.
Now was not the time to be anxious.
She took a deep breath and sat back down by the computer desk.
Suddenly, Lin Wanwan’s gaze fell upon a certain sentence in the email.
“Salmonella plus Vibrio parahaemolyticus poisoning!”
Lin Wanwan’s fingers tapped rapidly on the keyboard, and dense search results instantly popped up on the screen.
Her eyes stared intently at the screen, unwilling to waste even a second on blinking, terrified of missing any crucial information.
Salmonella often exists in contaminated meat and eggs; once infected, mild cases experience nausea and vomiting, while severe cases trigger septicemia.
As for Vibrio parahaemolyticus, it was even more of a regular guest in seafood; after eating contaminated raw seafood, severe abdominal pain and diarrhea would appear within hours. When elderly people, children, and pregnant women with low immunity got infected, the consequences were even more unthinkable.
Previously, Lin Wanwan only knew that her stomach was upset, not expecting these two bacteria to actually be so dangerous.
Lin Wanwan let out a sigh; no wonder it caused so many people to get poisoned, and even made a pregnant woman lose her child.
She scrolled down the page, her eyes suddenly drawn to the words “rapid testing.”
Although it was marked with an advertisement tag behind it, she still decisively clicked in.
Upon clicking, the interface jumped to a product promotion page on Taobao.
This was a rapid test strip that could detect Salmonella, capable of detecting whether food contained Salmonella within 5 minutes.
Lin Wanwan’s eyes lit up; for the first time, she felt lucky that Baidu search had an ad promotion feature for this stuff.
She hurriedly searched for relevant information.
Several biotechnology companies had introduced corresponding test strips, and the operation steps were as simple as taking an early pregnancy test.
One only needed to take a small sample of food, add the matching buffer solution, drip it onto the test strip, wait a few minutes, and judge whether it contained pathogenic bacteria through color development.
The more she read, the brighter Lin Wanwan’s eyes became, a complete plan gradually taking shape in her mind.
She didn’t need to wait until a large-scale poisoning incident occurred, nor did she need to agonize over the specific date.
As long as she could get sample ingredients from this raw-marinated shop and test a positive result using the test strips, she could directly report them to the Food and Drug Administration.
Salmonella and Vibrio parahaemolyticus both belonged to severe health code violations; according to regulations, once verified, the shop would not only be ordered to suspend business for rectification, but would also face heavy fines.
Subsequently, it would even be placed on a key supervision list, making them afraid to use un-fresh seafood again within a short period.
Although this couldn’t guarantee that the shop owner would never offend again forever, it could at least stop the tragedy that was about to happen, saving those over 100 people from food poisoning and allowing that unborn child to come into this world safely.
Thinking up to this point, Lin Wanwan could no longer sit still, immediately opening her food delivery app to search for relevant test strips.
Fortunately, three kilometers away from her home, there happened to be a 24-hour chain pharmacy whose product list just so happened to have test strip kits for Salmonella and Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
The unit price was not cheap, totaling over three hundred for the two kits combined, but Lin Wanwan had no hesitation whatsoever, placing the order directly.
Half an hour later, Lin Wanwan successfully obtained the two test kit products.
That night, Lin Wanwan did not sleep soundly.
Half-asleep and half-awake, she kept recalling that sentence in the email, “a pregnant woman four months along suffered a miscarriage because of it,” as if she could see the sight of that family breaking down before her eyes.
Just as dawn broke, she woke up.
After a quick wash, she specifically changed into a hoodie and jeans that were convenient for movement, put on the backpack containing the test strips, and left the house half an hour early.
The early morning street still carried a bit of chill. Lin Wanwan rode her electric scooter, rushing toward that Chaoshan raw-marinated shop from last night.
Turning the street corner, she saw from afar that the raw-marinated shop’s shutter door was already pulled open halfway, orange-yellow light seeping out from the gap, and the owner was bending over organizing the glass jars in the window.
Lin Wanwan’s hanging heart instantly settled. She hurriedly parked her scooter and walked over briskly.
“Boss, give me one portion of every kind of raw-marinated dish.”
She tried her best to make her voice sound natural, her gaze quickly scanning through the menu, afraid of missing a single item.
The owner raised his head to glance at her and replied with a smile:
“You have quite an appetite, little girl! Our raw-marinated seafood is quite fresh, getting the freshest stock from the pier every day!!”