With Lin Feng hanging up the phone, the matter was settled, and the shareholders and employees of Bilibili were greatly excited.
After all, this was equivalent to Bilibili successfully advertising itself before tens of millions of people.
Once I Love Invention aired, they would presumably gain at least two or three million additional views.
If Bilibili could retain those new users who had come out of curiosity to see what the fuss was about, its total number of registered users might even surpass five million.
However, while they were delighted, the pressure was also immense. They had to hurry and create a new version of the website and app based on the interface Lin Feng had provided.
They also needed to rush out their own livestreaming platform and launch it as soon as possible, ready to absorb the new users brought in by I Love Invention.
Lin Feng himself would also need to leverage his fame to bring the livestreaming platform its initial popularity and get the entire platform up and running.
Lin Feng naturally had no objections. Compared with before, the only difference was that he had once conducted his research quietly, while now he would be doing it in public.
The only difference was that he would have to chat with netizens from time to time and answer their questions.
Thus, as the meeting officially came to an end, those who had been following the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle and I Love Invention were destined to be disappointed.
That was because the documentary, promotional video, and even the broadcast of I Love Invention featuring the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle had all been postponed.
And this delay lasted a full two weeks. Adding the few days already wasted before that, it had been nearly three weeks in total.
After such a long time, the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle's popularity had naturally declined. Fortunately, hype was something that could always be stirred up again.
Time passed swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, two weeks had gone by.
That morning, Bilibili's domain name, web interface, mobile interface, and everything else underwent a major version update. Everything had changed.
At the same time, Lin Feng's Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle documentary and promotional video went online, while the drastically revamped Bilibili website also displayed the promotional video for the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle.
Clearly, Bilibili had directly given it a homepage recommendation.
In addition, announcements about the release of the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle documentary and promotional video rapidly appeared in the comment sections of other video platforms and on Sina Weibo.
This series of actions immediately excited countless netizens who were still following the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle.
They eagerly told their friends the good news, then quickly opened Bilibili and began watching the related videos, wanting to learn the story behind the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle's development.
Great Xia, Jiangsu Province, inside a room during the noon break.
"It's finally been uploaded? I've been waiting nearly three weeks."
The speaker was a young man in his twenties whose online handle was "Signal of Anticipation."
That morning, while using his phone to browse AcFun in the company restroom, he had seen an excited reminder in the comments from a netizen named Xia Eternal, saying that Lin Feng had uploaded the coin-style electromagnetic rifle videos to Bilibili.
Upon hearing the news, "Signal of Anticipation" was naturally delighted and desperately wanted to see what the documentary was like. However, since he was at work, he could only suppress the urge for the time being.
Now that he had finished lunch and finally had some free time, he had to watch the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle documentary and promotional video he had been eagerly awaiting.
After all, he had never forgotten the shock the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle had given him that day, nor could he forget Lin Feng's imposing figure carrying it.
Therefore, he was extremely curious about why Lin Feng had developed the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle, what difficulties and problems he had encountered during its development, and what Lin Feng had gone through.
After waiting nearly three weeks, the documentary he had long anticipated had finally been uploaded. This was truly wonderful.
However, he did not click on the documentary first. Instead, he watched the three-minute 1080P high-definition promotional video.
The promotional video began with more than ten seconds of shooting footage, then used rhythmic electronic music alongside text and voiceover to introduce the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle's structure, specifications, and features.
Finally, it showed the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle's actual performance in testing.
The most unforgettable scene was when everyone fled, followed by a thunderous boom. When the camera turned back, it revealed the shocking sight of Lin Feng holding the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle as he killed a wild boar.
That scene also sent netizens into a frenzy. The bullet comments were filled with exclamations like "Holy crap!" "Awesome!" "My brother is incredible!" and "I want this gun!"
Seeing this, a faint smile appeared on "Signal of Anticipation's" lips, and he continued on to the other Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle documentary.
The first thing shown in the documentary was neither the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle nor Lin Feng. Instead, it was a screenshot of a Weibo post.
The screenshot was from the time Professor He had bluntly called Lin Feng "a black-hearted merchant who was of no benefit to the country."
Seeing this, "Signal of Anticipation" was slightly stunned. He had not expected Professor He to be so arbitrary as to call Lin Feng "a black-hearted merchant who was of no benefit to the country." Wasn't that accusation a little too severe?
Feeling somewhat displeased, "Signal of Anticipation" continued watching. After a few seconds of screenshots, the documentary footage finally began.
The narration explained that after Lin Feng finished developing the second-generation Handwriting Robot, he had fallen into boredom, so he decided to look at the news.
In the end, Lin Feng saw news in Jane's Defence Weekly that Great Xia was developing an electromagnetic cannon.
Seeing this, Lin Feng declared, to everyone's knowing smiles, "How magnificent, Great Xia!" before announcing that he too would contribute to the country.
He said that since Great Xia had developed an electromagnetic cannon, he would develop an electromagnetic rifle to serve the nation.
Ultimately, guided by the principle of "using force to halt violence and end conflict," Lin Feng came up with the design concept for the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle, hoping to develop one that could achieve the goal of "using force to halt violence and end conflict."
The next ten-odd minutes of the video mainly described the various problems Lin Feng encountered during development.
It showed what Lin Feng did to solve those problems, how he solved them, and what new problems emerged afterward, repeating the process again and again.
After all the twists and turns, one and a half months of work, and nearly a million in research funding, the Coin-style Electromagnetic Rifle was finally ready for live-fire testing.
The netizens already knew about the subsequent live-fire test footage and had watched it many times. Finally, the scene switched to a discussion with an expert around sixty years old.
Beside the expert was an introduction listing his name and position: Professor Wang Shan, a small-arms design expert employed at the Beijing Institute of Technology, one of the Seven Sons of National Defense.
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