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Ten thousand! A hundred thousand! A million!

Ten million! Twenty million! Thirty million!

In the end, the number of people who bought viewing access to the livestream reached a staggering two hundred million!

Four hundred million US dollars landed in his hands, but before Chen Zhao could even warm it up, he transferred it to the experimental base's public account.

The experimental base at Lop Nur had a public account. Every project leader at the base knew about it and could withdraw money from it whenever needed.

Research projects, especially cutting-edge ones, often required astronomical amounts of funding.

When applying for a budget, however, project leaders had no way of knowing exactly how much money it would take to complete the experiment.

Sometimes, the budget would run out just when money was urgently needed. Submitting another report to apply for a massive new budget would take several days to be approved. Time was tight, and research could easily be delayed.

That was why this public account existed. Some money was kept in it, allowing project leaders to withdraw funds in emergencies and deal with urgent needs.

In a new materials laboratory.

Several scientists were worrying:

"If we keep the machine running for another two days, the remaining five million in funding will be burned through!"

"Hurry up and apply for more budget! We can't shut it down!"

"Even if we apply now, it'll take a week to come through. That'll delay everything!"

"How about we put in some of our own money? I still have around ten million in spare cash in my account. I can take it out."

"I'm broke. I bought a huge house in Hainan last month for fifty million, and I'm still drowning in debt!"

"I don't have any money either, but I can beg