On the ground, the staff at the rocket launch pad had not yet dispersed. After all, the launch was only a crucial step in the rocket's operation, and their work could not stop until the rocket reached its designated location.
Just as everyone was still intently watching the rocket's trajectory, ready to make adjustments at any moment, Li Xingkong's message arrived.
This message was not sent directly to the ground chief engineer's private channel because Li Xingkong had never communicated with him privately.
Li Xingkong's photo suddenly appeared on the big screen that everyone was staring at, completely obscuring the rocket's trajectory.
The message that followed was displayed directly on the big screen, which greatly frightened everyone present.
The rocket launch channels are encrypted and highly secure, so the sudden appearance of other messages sent chills down the spines of many present, especially the security personnel.
Right now, they'd love to take the computer apart and see who did this.
Fortunately, the chief engineer still remembered Li Xingkong's appearance, after all, it was he who came before the launch and asked a lot of strange questions in a cryptic manner.
Moreover, Li Xingkong is indeed one of their direct superiors. At least since the ship is still in Wanli Shitang participating in this mission, they are under Li Xingkong's jurisdiction.
Although it's unclear how Li Xingkong got into their channel, putting that aside, the photo Li Xingkong sent already has a lot to criticize.
Dressed in ordinary sportswear, with a fishing net hanging around his waist, he would be perfectly normal anywhere in Divine Land, but appearing here is just outrageous. The background of the photo is a vacuum, and you can even see a corner of the Earth in the upper left corner of the photo.
There's just a guy standing casually in a vacuum, with a net attached to a bunch of random things. Anyone would think it's photoshopped.
What followed was even more outrageous: he actually pointed at the pile of things in the net and asked himself whose it was. How would he have known?
Li Xingkong waited for a while, but there was no response from the ground. He figured his photos might not be clear enough, so he took a short video of the larger, more obvious pieces of debris and sent it back.
As for how the video was filmed, Li Xingkong can now use magic to access the channel, so sending out what he sees is just an extra step of conversion.
"Here we go again!"
Before they could even process the two short messages, Li Xingkong sent another video, showing him filming several fragments in his net and urging the ground crew to quickly identify them.
To be honest, this is the first time the ground staff have faced this situation, and they are currently at a loss, not knowing what to do.
Fortunately, the stalemate was quickly broken as ground security personnel located the source of the signal.
"Chief Engineer, the signal source stops at our relay satellite and then disappears. It seems the signal is being transmitted directly from the satellite."
This kind of cryptic signal is beyond the capabilities of security personnel. To apprehend someone, you first need to know where they are.
If this person is located on a satellite, how can we play games?
"Keep this confidential for now. Stop tracking it and take a look at the fragments in his video."
Although there are still many questions about this matter, Li Xingkong keeps asking, whether it's out of a superior-subordinate relationship or to further track the rocket, the priority is to help him solve the problem first.
"Found it. The debris looks like a decommissioned military satellite from the Big Hair century, Kosmos 2251. It collided with a commercial satellite from the Eagle Country a while ago and is now in fragments, but it's still in low Earth orbit."
Those present were all veterans who had worked in the aerospace industry for many years, and they could quickly identify these fragments from even the slightest clue.
"Holy crap, is it really true?"
"That's impossible! How could a person be in space?"
"It's probably a scam..."
The others present were also in an uproar, and they began to have serious doubts about the authenticity of the video.
Looking around, although the chief engineer on the ground also had doubts about the authenticity of the video, he still had the right to speak and was in charge of the overall situation.
"Judging from the latest news, the comrade who sent the message wants to find the country where these fragments belong and then throw them back to them. If that's true, what do you think?"
"Of course we can't send it back to them. Materials that can go into space are so precious; sending them back would be a waste."
There is a general consensus on how to handle space debris.
They're only considered junk in space, but on Earth they're rare and precious materials; giving even a single piece to a foreign country would be a loss.
"So all we need to do is tell him to leave all the debris within the territory of Divine Land."
Ground staff quickly reached a conclusion on the issue.
"So how should we notify him?"
Soon someone raised a very pointed question: since Li Xingkong is currently the one-way communicator, how are they supposed to contact Li Xingkong? This is a really tricky question.
"Since he can speak in this channel, he might be watching us. We should just try speaking normally."
Fortunately, the communications staff quickly came up with a solution. In their view, since Li Xingkong could hack into the channel, he should naturally be able to see the messages they sent.
Once the communication plan was finalized, the chief engineer quickly organized his wording.
"Hello comrade, regarding the ownership of the space debris, it has been determined that it belongs to Big Hair. However, space debris materials are rare. If we want to recover it, we can put it all into the designated location in Divine Land for recycling."
After he finished speaking, he added several coordinates, which were the locations of the Divine Land rocket recovery and the landing area of the spacecraft return capsule.
Although they are called locations, they are actually very large areas, usually located in grasslands and by the sea. These areas are sparsely populated and remote, so even if the drop goes astray, it will not affect people's lives.
Li Xingkong was naturally watching the channel, and he also took the opportunity to make another move, scooping up another handful of trash fragments.
Li Xingkong was also aware of these small pieces of trash. If they were too small, they might be destroyed before reaching the ground due to friction between the metal and the atmosphere after being thrown into the atmosphere. Therefore, he did not plan to throw them away separately.
He found a relatively large piece of debris—or rather, a large fragment of the propulsion pod—and then Li Xingkong Li Xingkong modified it, using brute force to reshape it into a large pocket that was two sizes larger than himself.
Then they stuffed all the captured trash inside and forcibly closed the large bag.
But when he tried to throw it towards Earth Star, he ran into a problem. The distance was so far; he had never kicked a ball that far before.
Kicking something to the designated landing point from that distance is quite a challenge for him.