The entire ocean is my fishing ground.

Chapter 101: I'll make you lose even your pants!

"We're conducting blind testing on-site right now, using this machine, which is certified by the Provincial Institute of Metrology."

No sooner had he finished speaking than several people in white coats came up and pushed a machine about half a person's height to the front of the stage.

The leader was a man in his fifties, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and his name tag read—Chen Mingde, Provincial Capital Testing Center.

Chen Mingde coughed and said in an official tone:

"I oversaw the entire blind test to ensure fairness. The samples were numbered separately, tested randomly, and the data was displayed directly on the big screen, so no one could cheat."

Two samples were taken out. One was the red snapper, A-01, that was in Lei Qianjun's water tank.

The other portion, B-04, was cut from Lin Chen's large, dark gold-red tuna king.

Lei Qianjun leaned against the stage with his arms crossed, and the way he looked at Lin Chen was so arrogant, it was as if the words "I'm going to win" were written all over his face.

Lin Chen stood quietly next to the eco-pod, hands in his pockets, expressionless.

Seeing Tang Zhen's anxious eyes, he nodded at him as a form of comfort.

Tang Zhen's heart was pounding in his chest.

Li Jiande, standing next to them, kept rubbing his chin, his eyes darting back and forth between the two of them, seemingly plotting something.

"drop--"

The machine made a sound.

On the big screen, the data for A-01, the East Star Spotted Fish of Jianghai, first appeared.

Looking at all the indicators, the residue was all green, indicating "qualified".

At the very bottom, a line of bold black text popped up.

Cell viability: 180%

"Whoosh..."

The audience erupted in uproar.

With an activity level of 180, it's even more vigorous than the wild kind.

"Hahaha."

Lei Qianjun burst into laughter.

"See that, everyone? This is the strength of our Jianghai Society."

Several bosses next to Li Jiande started clapping, clapping in a particularly sycophantic manner.

Li Jiande also clapped twice, but his eyes were still fixed on the screen. He glanced at Lin Chen and felt a little uneasy.

Tang Zhen's palms were covered in sweat.

The screen snapped shut and changed.

B-04, Longji Fresh.

The next second, the screen turned red with a "snap," and a piercing alarm blared, making everyone's ears ring.

In the middle of the screen, several lines of large, blood-red characters flashed.

[Warning: Sample viability is severely insufficient; the tissue is judged to be near death!]

[WARNING: Oxytetracycline residue exceeds the standard by 9.7 times!!]

[Warning: Chloramphenicol residue exceeds the standard by 11.2 times!!]

Everyone is stupid.

Chen Mingde rushed to the screen, pointed at the red light, his voice trembling.

"The evidence is right here! This isn't any good seafood; it's poisoned fish soaked in chemicals. It's a scam, a commercial fraud!"

Tang Zhen's legs went weak, and if he hadn't grabbed the chair in front of him quickly, he would have collapsed.

His mind went blank for a moment.

Li Jiande gasped, his eyes bloodshot as he glared at Lin Chen, both angry and frightened.

He was just a hair's breadth away from betting everything on this kid.

"Ban him!!"

Lei Qianjun grabbed the microphone and started yelling.

"This kind of unscrupulous businessman must get out of the provincial capital! I propose a province-wide boycott of Longji Fresh Food and kick him out!"

"Yes! Get them out!!"

"Poisonous fish! Pay up!"

"fraud!"

The bosses who were praising Lin Chen just moments ago have all changed their tune, now throwing insults and suspicious glances at him.

Zhou Dazhuang stepped forward, blocking Lin Chen's path, his eyes fierce. The people in front of him immediately fell silent.

Amidst this chaos, Lin Chen made a move.

He pushed Zhou Dazhuang's arm aside and walked onto the stage.

Everyone was watching him as he walked up to the still-ringing machine.

He didn't even look at Lei Qianjun and Chen Mingde.

He extended a finger and tapped it on the calibration panel on the side of machine B-04.

"Deputy Director Chen."

"Half an hour ago, before entering the site, you tampered with the calibration module of machine B-04. You manually increased the detection parameters for chloramphenicol and oxytetracycline by ten times."

Chen Mingde's face turned pale instantly.

Lin Chen didn't stop, and continued, "Moreover, the test just now showed that there are at least three things that are not right about you."

"First, you deliberately prolonged the centrifugation time when processing the sample, which damaged the red trevally cells and caused the activity data to collapse."

"Secondly, when you injected the sample into the testing tank, the syringe wasn't cleaned, and there was still diluent from sample A-01 inside."

"Third, when you started the B-04 program, you pressed the alarm with the remote control in your pocket."

The expressions of the experts who had been invited to be judges in the audience also changed.

They were all experts, and as soon as Lin Chen said that, they immediately sensed something was wrong.

Several people went up on stage and discussed quietly around the machine. One of the older experts adjusted his glasses and looked at Chen Mingde.

"You...you're talking nonsense!"

Chen Mingde's eyes darted around, but he still stubbornly shouted, "The machine is official, the data doesn't lie! You're talking nonsense, you're slandering me!"

Lei Qianjun quickly chimed in, "That's right! So you can't accept defeat and resort to cheating? Lin Chen, I really overestimated you!"

"Yeah?"

Lin Chen was too lazy to waste any more words with them, so he took out his phone and pressed the screen mirroring button.

hum-

The red alert was gone on the large screen in the venue.

A screenshot of a bank account popped up.

Bank of account: Credit Suisse.

A recent deposit record is circled in red.

Amount: 200,000 USD.

Time: Last night, 11:37 PM.

Before anyone could react, Lin Chen pressed his phone again.

"Sizzle—"

A recording came through the loudspeakers in the venue, and it was crystal clear.

A greasy-looking man spoke: "Director Chen, the matter is settled. General Manager Lei said that this amount will be transferred to your Zurich account immediately."

Then came Chen Mingde's voice: "Don't worry, I guarantee he'll lose everything in tomorrow's blind test. I know that machine very well; I can make it produce whatever data I want."

"It's a pleasure working with you."

"It's a pleasure working with you, hahaha..."

The recording has finished playing.

The entire Hall 3 was deathly quiet, except for the sound of Tang Zhen breathing heavily.

Everyone was stunned.

The restaurant owners stood frozen in place, then stood up from their seats without prior arrangement.

They looked at Lin Chen on the stage, their eyes filled with fear.

How...how does this person know all this?

Just then.

"Bang!"

The main door to the venue was kicked open.

Officer Wang, dressed in his police uniform with a dark expression, strode in with four armed special police officers.

They pushed their way through the crowd and rushed onto the stage.

A pair of handcuffs snapped onto Chen Mingde's wrists, who was already slumped on the ground.

"Chen Mingde, you are suspected of commercial bribery and falsifying test reports. Come with us."

Another person who appeared to be a secretary was also subdued on the spot by two special police officers.

Lei Qianjun's face was completely bloodless, his lips trembled, and he couldn't utter a single word.

Reporters at the scene were snapping photos non-stop, and the news that "Jianghai Club set up a trap and the inspector was arrested on the spot" quickly went viral in various catering groups in the provincial capital.