At this moment, the number of viewers in He Xingzhou's live stream had risen from an initial one thousand to over a hundred thousand, with the popularity indicator showing several hundred thousand!
Among the streamers, this was already considered as having a high level of popularity.
The barrage in the live stream was overwhelming!
"6666!"
"The streamer is awesome, the number one hardcore UP master on the entire net!"
"Mom asked me why I'm watching the live stream on my knees?"
"A DIY nuclear reactor, did you learn anything at all? Because I sure haven't!"
"After watching your live stream, I got so excited I jumped up from the couch, then realized I can't even make a good model airplane."
"Followed! I feel like this streamer will achieve great things in the future!"
Some people were gifting He Xingzhou, but he was too busy to pay attention to the live stream because the minuscule nuclear material for the reactor had already been depleted.
You could see that the generator had stopped turning, and the electric current output had also ceased.
"The radiation intensity is decreasing." The radiation detection equipment showed that radiation intensity was rapidly decreasing, but it was still much higher than the normal environmental levels.
After a nuclear fission reaction, some radiation was still residual here. Fortunately, this was a nuclear physics lab, equipped with specialized devices and personnel to clean up the environment.
"Now that my experiment has been successfully completed, next I will conduct tests on the reactive materials. Today's live stream ends here, thank you all for watching. You can follow my account, as I will continue to reveal more scientific experiments and products to everyone in the future." After He Xingzhou finished speaking, his followers on Bilibili began to surge, doubling from the initial hundred thousand in no time!
This was just the increase in a minute, and more people kept following him. Additionally, the live stream videos would be edited into educational science videos and continued to be played on the website.
Inside the large classroom, after hearing He Xingzhou announce the successful completion of the experiment, Zhang Boyan was the first to start applauding.
Professors Dong Chen, Cai Hao, and others also began clapping, and the students were even more enthusiastic, their applause resounding "clap clap" loudly. At this moment, in their eyes, He Xingzhou was their idol!
The live stream had ended, but He Xingzhou still needed to clean up the experimental residues.
He paid special attention to the nearby mutated black porgy; these three mutant fish had no protection and were very close to the nuclear reactor, directly exposed to the radiation during the nuclear fission reaction.
It seemed as though they had become more active than before, continuously swimming around in the water tank.
A lab technician reminded him, "Your fish have been exposed to radiation, you absolutely cannot eat them. Even if they die, they need to be disposed of harmlessly."
"I'm aware, these were all for the experiment," He Xingzhou nodded.
The experiment was over, but there was still a pile of work to be done, such as writing the experiment report.
And the fact that He Xingzhou had built a nuclear reactor on live stream had also been picked up by online media, who began reporting it.
Penguin Highlights: "College student builds a nuclear reactor on campus, watch on Penguin Videos now!"
Weibo Trending: "#A university student live streams building a nuclear reactor and successfully generates electricity#."
UC News: "A university student did this right in front of the whole school, shocking all teachers and students!"
Chui Hu: "How do you view the incident of a Beijing University of Science and Technology student building a nuclear reactor?"
Besides text media, many news outlets were reporting and picking up this story in video media.
Some questioned: "This is just a publicity stunt, the video isn't much!"
"Media just hypes things up, if he's so great, why doesn't he go design nuclear bombs?"
However, the official website of Capital University of Science and Technology also released the news, stating: "This student is the first in our school's history to build a nuclear reactor. His experiment was very high quality, not just an 'entertainment' style nuclear reactor, but one with true commercial viability for nuclear fission."
Netizens commented: "Who would build a nuclear reactor just for fun!"
"Yeah, we don't have that kind of skill!"
"It's just a nuclear reactor! Big deal if you dare;"
"Big shot, impressive!"
The Huaxia Youth Organization even specially reposted this news and commented: "Exploring science with rigor and seriousness, having thoughts, intelligence, and the ability to act! This is the true style of our country's university students, our youth! Applause for He Xingzhou!"
He Xingzhou went straight from being well-known at the school to being famous online, with the last episode's view count directly surpassing a million!
So much so, that now when He Xingzhou walks around campus, he's occasionally asked, "Are you He Xingzhou?"
"Are you He Xingzhou?" Two pretty young schoolgirls curiously approached He Xingzhou who was on his way back to the dormitory.
"I am." He Xingzhou was already used to such encounters.
"Ah! It really is you, you're so amazing, senior. Can we take a photo with you?" The two schoolgirls were excited.
"Alright." He Xingzhou did not refuse.
The two happily took a photo with He Xingzhou and also asked for his WeChat contact information.
This scene made the three roommates walking with him envious, and they couldn't stop talking about it on the way back to the dormitory.
"That's way too cool! I've never had girls take the initiative to ask for my contact information in my whole life!" Zhang Yang said enviously.
"Now He is a celebrity at school, hehe. I already added a schoolgirl's WeChat yesterday. I told her I'm He's roommate and that I participated in the nuclear reactor experiment, now she really admires me!" Wang Jiahao said proudly.
"You beast!" Feng Tao exclaimed.
"I've made up my mind, I'm going to stick with He from now on. Based on my years of experience, He will be the most successful among us in the dormitory!" Wang Jiahao said grandiosely, "He Xingzhou, from now on you are my big brother. In wealth and honor, let's never forget each other!"
"In wealth and honor, let's never forget each other!" The other two echoed.
He Xingzhou smiled and said, "We're all brothers here, no need for formalities."
"As for the future, many unusual things might happen. We've been classmates for years; if you have any difficulties, you can come to me."
"Touched!" Wang Jiahao said. "But your words sound like you're troubled by something?"
He Xingzhou smiled without replying, knowing that if he talked about the Insect Race now, they wouldn't believe it.
But he had begun to trust the Quantum Light Computer's judgment, because the three mutated black porgies that had been irradiated were mutating at a much faster pace in the following days.
Their size had doubled again, and they could no longer be kept in the dormitory, so He Xingzhou handed them over to the Biology Interest Group for Mutant Creatures at the Biology department for breeding; these fish were all housed in the bio lab.
Lately, He Xingzhou was conducting daily gene tests on them, and a unique gene started to dominate their bodies, showing unique traits.
He believed that was the gene of the Insect Race.
He was working on a biology report, including simulations of the mutation and evolution of the Insect Race gene. Once the report was out, he believed, it would certainly startle the nation!
Compared to this, the miniature nuclear reactor experiment seemed like a small matter!