Just as Xu Yun had explained to Jiang Chenggu.
Once Huadun Biotech's publicity machine started up, news of the Yongle Encyclopedia exhibition shot straight to the top of the internet's trending charts.
By the second hour after the topic reached the top of the trending list, the National Museum's cumulative number of visits had surpassed ten million.
It was worth noting that—
The National Museum had strict rules for counting visits: the same IP address would only count again after half an hour.
In other words—
Even if each IP address were counted as making four valid visits, more than 2.5 million people had visited the National Museum's official website in just two hours. In reality, the number could only be higher.
By midnight that day,
the number of people who had signed up through various channels officially surpassed 800,000.
A day later, the number had climbed to 1.2 million.
Then 1.5 million. 1.6 million.
On the third day after registration opened, the MR Modeling team led by Lu Xiao officially entered the National Museum to collect all kinds of data.
Three days later,
the first round of source data sampling for the exhibition hall was complete, and the National Museum officially held a lottery for exhibition slots.
Of course,
the word "held" might have sounded a little grand, but the whole process was actually very simple:
There was no livestream or interview. At noon that day, the museum's official account posted a reminder on Weibo, then at eight that evening, a lottery app drew the lucky winners who had secured a spot at the exhibition.
At nine-thirty that night,
in a conference room at the National Museum,
"Dr. Xu, Director Jiang, Director Wang."
Holding a tablet, Gu Qunqing addressed the people seated before him:
"Before the lottery was officially