Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

Guo Moruo Square.

Director Guan, dressed in protective gear, was holding a modified 'Insect Sucker', walking across the square with a dozen staff from Ke Da.

Every few steps, he would operate the device, dealing with the mountains of cockroach corpses for post-mortem disposal.

However, unlike last time,

This time, the 'Insect Sucker' was connected not to a burlap sack, but to a long pipe.

The end of the pipe led to a large capacity garbage truck.

Since Ke Da had set up barricades at several extermination points in advance, the vast majority of poisoned cockroaches couldn't escape the extermination zones until their deaths.

Thus, the entire square resembled a massively enlarged cockroach trap, tightly containing all the cockroaches within this area.

Even the thinnest pile of cockroach corpses at the site was no less than four centimeters thick.

Each time the 'Insect Sucker' was activated, more than a hundred cockroaches would be sucked in and sent into the garbage truck's container.

Alongside the cleaning crew, reporters and photographers from several major platforms quietly documented the end of the East District's cockroach Empire.

The enthusiasm online from the audience remained high, though by now the comments in the live stream chat had become significantly more harmonious, with few trolls still stubbornly complaining:

"Wow, sucking in so many cockroaches at once is so satisfying!"

"My sister just saw a cockroach on the table; now the table's been smashed by her—believe it or not, half an hour ago, she couldn't even open a cap of soluble vitamin C."

"Where can I buy this cockroach repellent? Begging for a link! T.T...."

"I want to strip naked and swim in the pile of cockroaches....."

On the Weibo trending list.

The topic #Ke Da Cockroach Extermination# had reached its peak since the start of the live broadcast.

Currently, except for the third place '#Sister Xiao Chong's female soldier role is so cool#', the top seven spots were all firmly occupied by Ke Da-related topics.

Of course,

Before allowing media access, Ke Da had already collected the remaining bait boards to minimize any leakage of their products.

Indeed,

Given the large number of media present, it's highly likely... or definitely certain that someone would quietly take some cockroach corpses for research by certain institutions.

But although there were samples of Imidacloprid residues in these bodies, most of the chemical constituents had already specifically bonded with receptor proteins.

Even the most advanced institutions could extract limited information in a short time.

At most, they could determine that the bait's ingredient was Imidacloprid, not Fipronil.

Currently, the patent for the Fifth Generation Imidacloprid was in its final stages, and with Hou Xingyuan, the president of the Science Institute, getting involved, it would be finalized in about a week.

By then, the institutions probably wouldn't have analyzed the main ingredients before Huadun Biotech's final product hits the market.

Three hours later.

The cockroaches at several extermination points had been cleared by seventy to eighty percent, and Ke Da's sanitation workers began air disinfection.

Meanwhile,

At Ke Da's media reception hall.

At this moment,

A press conference organized by Ke Da was unfolding under the scrutiny of cameras of various sizes.

The spokesperson for the conference was Zhang Rui, the executive vice president of Ke Da, as the impact of this cockroach extermination was quite significant, requiring someone of executive level authority to address it adequately.

Once the media settled down,

Zhang Rui cleared his throat slightly and asked with a smile:

"Friends from the media, does anyone still believe Ke Da is falsifying academic data?

If you think so, feel free to bring it up, and we can discuss it further. The more we debate, the clearer the truth becomes."

His question was met with silence.

Zhang Rui, seeing this, couldn't help but feel secretly pleased.

Over the past week or so, Ke Da had endured waves of pressure from all sides, coming in like tides without ceasing.

The public opinion environment during those days was even more severe than what the school's board initially anticipated, and Zhang Rui, the initiator of this proposal, had barely rested well every day.

Besides the attacks from across the sea, numerous domestic critiques didn't fall short either.

Actually, Zhang Rui found it quite puzzling.

If someone was paid to slander, that's another story; making dirty money—right and wrong aside—at least they profit from it, right?

But some people were just bizarre.

Despite receiving no money and not engaging in normal questioning, they'd launch into unbridled criticism without restraint.

In the end, they tangled the issue into national matters, and what are they aiming for then?

After Ke Da's counterstrike, those who were paid washed their hands and left, and the baseless critics found themselves abandoned by their comrades, becoming the sole clowns.

This is almost a masterpiece painting of the world.

Then Zhang Rui paused and said:

"Since our media friends here have no objections, let's officially proceed with the press conference."

He straightened the files on the podium and continued:

"First, let's discuss the number of live viewers that everyone is interested in.

The cockroach extermination live stream by Ke Da took place on a total of 22 different platforms, including Bilibili, Migu, Weibo, Baoya, both large and small.

Out of these platforms, Bilibili had the highest viewer traffic.

Today, Bilibili's peak daily active users reached 41 million due to the premiere of 'K-On! 3' in the early morning, which caused today's daily users to be much higher than usual.

Excluding regular daily activity, approximately 14 million users were watching our live stream through different channels today....."

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