Chapter 237 How was Li Jiajun's Starlink uploaded?

"You're trying to defy the heavens!"

Liu Jianguo's cracked voice echoed in the warehouse, making Li Jiajun's eardrums buzz.

Li Jiajun stood where he was, still holding the phone he had just finished the call on, his expression quite spectacular.

Damn.

It was exposed just like that?

Li Jiajun felt speechless, even wanting to scratch the wall.

He had been careless; he hadn't dodged.

Originally, he had thought Uncle Liu, this old comrade, was usually loud and blustery but actually quite easy to fool, and since he was one of his own, there was no harm in taking a call in front of him.

After all, who could have guessed that the other party would associate a request to borrow a network with the situation in South America?

Even less did he expect there would be an intelligence officer nearby with ears like a bat, who could actually understand the gist of that minor language.

Li Jiajun blinked, trying to use his signature innocent look to muddle through.

"Um, Uncle Liu, what are you saying? How would I have that kind of ability?"

"I'm just a guy who sells toys. Defying the heavens is technical work for your national team; how would I dare to steal your business?"

However, this time, Liu Jianguo was clearly not so easy to fool.

He was in a state of extreme shock and existential crisis, unable to listen to Li Jiajun's sophistry at all.

Meanwhile, standing to the side, the intelligence officer, Xiao Zhang, had his brows knitted into a "chuan" shape.

He although had deduced the result, the process remained a huge mystery to him.

"Director Liu, although the facts are right before our eyes," Xiao Zhang looked at Li Jiajun, his eyes full of inquiry and confusion, speaking in a low tone, "there is one thing I cannot figure out."

"This Factory Director Li, how did he do it?"

Xiao Zhang pointed to the sky, then pointed to Li Jiajun. "That is space."

"To deploy a satellite network with such wide coverage and such stable signals in space, you need a launch vehicle."

"He has no rockets, and he has no launch site."

"How did those satellites of his get up there?"

"Did he conjure them up with magic?"

Xiao Zhang's question was like a bucket of cold water, instantly dousing Liu Jianguo's heated forehead.

That's right. How did they get up there?

After hearing the intelligence officer's account, Liu Jianguo's brain was overloaded.

He stared blankly at Li Jiajun, his mind like a tangled mess, countless seemingly unrelated clues darting around inside.

sky rocket. Satellite. Network. No launch site. No launch vehicle. But the network over in the La Dou region had indeed been restored.

This isn't scientific! This completely violates the laws of physics and engineering logic!

Liu Jianguo paced around twice with his hands behind his back, muttering constantly: "Something's not right, this is not right."

Suddenly, a thought, like lightning piercing the night sky, struck him hard.

His whole body stiffened, and his footsteps stopped instantly.

He remembered the cause of this incident. The side that had sued Li Jiajun: Curry Country. The "curry speed" that was supposed to launch sixteen satellites but ended up becoming the fireworks of the century.

He also recalled the abnormally calm attitude Li Jiajun had when signing the contract, which could even be said to be the attitude of someone who already knew this would happen.

All the clues, at this moment, miraculously connected together, forming a closed loop that made him shudder.

Curry Country launches a rocket. Li Jiajun sells them a toy sky rocket. The rocket explodes. The satellite network appears.

"Hiss." Liu Jianguo sucked in a sharp breath of cold air, the chill going straight to his lungs.

He suddenly looked up, staring fixedly at Li Jiajun, with a look as if he were seeing this young man for the first time.

"Borrowing a chicken to lay eggs!"

Liu Jianguo blurted out these four words, his voice trembling. This wasn't because of fear, but because he was shocked to the extreme by this conjecture.

He reached out a finger, pointing shakily at Li Jiajun, and said with the look of someone watching a monster—no, a god:

"You kid, you kid actually used Curry Country's rocket as your own ride?"

"You used their rocket to launch your satellites?"

As soon as these words came out, Elder Qian and the intelligence officer Xiao Zhang to the side were also stunned. Borrowing a chicken to lay eggs? You can play it like that too?

Li Jiajun looked at Liu Jianguo's expression, which seemed to have seen through everything, and was stunned for a moment.

He had originally thought that even if everyone on the scene had their brains smoking, they might not be able to react or guess it.

He didn't expect someone to actually guess it. And it was his Uncle Liu?

"No," Li Jiajun blurted out subconsciously, "Uncle Liu, you've become this smart?"

Liu Jianguo's face twitched crazily. He looked at Li Jiajun's surprised expression of "how did you suddenly become smart," feeling speechless, his blood pressure soaring.

Damn. What kind of image do I have in this kid's heart? Does it mean in your eyes, I should be a complete idiot?

Liu Jianguo took a deep breath, suppressing the urge to hit someone. Now was not the time to worry about this. He had to figure out what was going on.

"Cut the crap!" Liu Jianguo said with a straight face, urging him impatiently, "Hurry up and say it! What exactly is going on?"

"How on earth did you do it? Where did you hide the satellites? How did you get the Curry person to help you launch them?"

"If you don't explain it clearly, you aren't leaving this door today!"

Looking at Uncle Liu's stance of getting to the bottom of things, plus having a top Expert like Elder Qian staring, Li Jiajun knew it was pointless to keep pretending. Anyway, the deed was done; the ship had sailed.

"Sigh." Li Jiajun sighed and shrugged.

"Actually, this is simple to explain."

He stopped hiding it and slowly walked to a table nearby, leaning against it, striking a pose of "I am about to start lecturing."

"Uncle Liu, Elder Qian, you both know that I don't really have any hobbies, I just like watching Animal World."

Liu Jianguo rolled his eyes.

God damn watching Animal World. Last time you watched Animal World, you came up with the twin-tailed scorpion drone; what kind of trouble did you watch out for this time?

Li Jiajun ignored Liu Jianguo's expression and continued:

"Once, I saw that Cuckoo Bird."

"This bird is quite interesting; it never builds its own nest and never hatches its own eggs."

"It will take advantage of other birds being away, lay its eggs in their nests, and then push the others' eggs out."

"This is the famous brood parasitism behavior."

Speaking of this, Li Jiajun snapped his fingers:

"I realized it right then."

"Since the Cuckoo Bird can borrow others' nests to hatch eggs, why can't I borrow others' rockets to launch my satellites?"

Everyone was stunned listening to this. What kind of logic is this? Realizing rockets from birds?

"So," Li Jiajun spread his hands, "when that Curry person, that is Rajesh, insisted on buying my toy sky rocket, and even planned to take it back for reverse engineering, to scale it up to build a rocket."

"I just went with the flow and added a little bit of private cargo to the design of this toy."

"I in the cooling interlayer of that Pangu Engine, and in the structural gaps of that dragon scale shell, I pre-embedded countless micro communication nodes, only the size of a fingernail."

"These nodes are my satellites."

"As long as that bunch of people in Curry Country honestly followed my design drawings to manufacture it at scale."

"Then, while they were manufacturing the rocket, they were also helping me manufacture these micro-satellites."

"And, because these satellites were fused into the rocket structure, they couldn't discover them at all."

Hearing this, Elder Qian couldn't help but gasp. Making satellites into structural components? How high of an integration and micro-electronics technology is this? How deep is this kid's technical reserve?

"But," the intelligence officer Xiao Zhang couldn't help but interrupt, "even if they helped you build them, didn't their rocket explode in the end?"

"It exploded into fireworks; didn't your satellites explode along with it?"

"And, the rocket didn't even enter orbit; how did your satellites form a network?"

This was the most critical question. Rocket explosions are destructive. Under such high temperature and pressure, any precision instrument would be finished.

Facing this doubt, the smile on Li Jiajun's face became even brighter.

He reached out a finger and tapped lightly in the air.

"This brings me to my second source of inspiration."

"Dandelion."

"Dandelion?" Everyone was stunned again.

"That's right, Dandelion."

Li Jiajun explained: "Dandelion seeds are spread by the wind."

"The harder the wind blows, the further they fly, and the more spread out they become."

"For my micro-satellites, the explosion of that Curry Country rocket was not a disaster."

"It was the wind."

Li Jiajun's voice became a bit low, carrying a sense of artistry:

"Those micro-satellites."

"They usually sleep, attached to the rocket body like parasites."

"And once they detect a violent explosion shockwave."

"They are activated."

"That century-level firework that occurred in low-Earth orbit, the huge thrust produced did not destroy them."

"Instead, like scattering flowers from the heavens, it precisely and evenly sowed these thousands of micro-nodes onto the predetermined orbital plane."

"Chaotic, but orderly within the chaos."

"They used the power of the explosion to complete the final orbit entry and dispersion."

"Then, automatic connection, automatic networking."

"A massive communication network was born silently amidst that magnificent firework."

Inside the office, there was dead silence. Only Li Jiajun's calm voice echoed.

Liu Jianguo opened his mouth wide, his chin almost hitting the floor. Elder Qian took off his glasses, his hands trembling slightly. The intelligence officer Xiao Zhang had an even more ghost-seeing expression.

Borrowing a chicken to lay eggs. Using an explosion as a power source. Turning an aerospace disaster into a perfect satellite deployment operation. This... is this a plan a human brain can think of? This is simply deceiving the heavens! This is simply a stroke of genius!

"So," Liu Jianguo swallowed his saliva, struggling to find his voice,

"so, Curry Country is crying and screaming over there."

"And you."

"You actually didn't spend a penny, and even earned their 25 million deposit."

"Then let them pay for it, provide the manpower, provide the venue, provide the rocket."

"And finally, they were the ones who ignited it, sending your priceless satellite network into the sky?"

Li Jiajun blinked, waving his hand modestly:

"Hey, Uncle Liu, don't put it so harshly."

"This is called resource integration."

"Besides, I didn't just freeload."

"Didn't I give them a semi-finished toy sky rocket?"

"Although the rocket exploded, it still made a sound. Hearing a sound worth billions for 50,000 yuan, they didn't lose out, right?"

However, his words also made Uncle Liu Jianguo understand one thing. This matter was also very simple.