[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill":3,"chapter-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-scammed-hundred-bill-arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-114":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Arms Tycoon: Starting by Conning a $10 Billion Order",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2077493,3287,"Chapter 114","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-114",114,"\u003Cp>The Middle East, Asia, Africa—the Ugly Nation's military power spans the globe,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but in recent years, following its two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Ugly Nation achieved victory without results, instead sinking deep into a quagmire of war and squandering military funds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With great difficulty, after President Xiao Ao took office and contracted the Ugly Nation's military presence in the Middle East,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Ugly Nation discovered at that very moment that it was already so deeply entrenched it could not extricate itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the people of the Middle East had already found a practical and effective method to deal with the Ugly Nation....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the sinking of this aircraft carrier, one can see that although the Ugly Nation remains militarily powerful, it is by no means invincible....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then, Professor Zhang, in your personal opinion, will the Ugly Nation use the 'Aircraft Carrier Incident' as a pretext to launch a war against the Middle East...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the host asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The probability is low; there are several aspects to consider.... On one hand, the environment in the Middle East is extremely complex,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and if the Ugly Nation truly acts stubbornly and launches a war, it will absolutely not be as easy to fight as the Iraq War was,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>for the Middle East has known perpetual war and its people are fierce; if the Ugly Nation really attacks, the losses will be far greater than just a single aircraft carrier!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Director Zhang began to elaborate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yi was at his company, watching the CCTV broadcast on his computer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, he had not expected Syria and the Houthi armed forces of Yemen to be so formidable,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>actually using the Yingji-18 missiles he recommended to sink a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the Ugly Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, he had originally thought the other side would at most use those missiles to destroy a few of the Ugly Nation's ships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, aircraft carriers are usually protected at the center of a carrier battle group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To sink an aircraft carrier requires either an air strike or a saturation attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But clearly, with the fifty Yingji-18 missiles Syria had purchased, achieving such a feat was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He believed they could sink a few ordinary cruisers or Type 054A frigates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But an aircraft carrier? That would be a miracle,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet this miracle had come to pass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no choice but to believe it; two days ago, when Wang Kai had woken him up by phone in the middle of the night,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he too had been utterly stunned upon hearing the news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he had once hoped for it, one need not speak of how difficult it was in reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yi could only say in his heart,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Syria, you are awesome! You actually pulled this off.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, at the time, the Syrian side was also completely bewildered upon hearing the news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That group from the Houthi armed forces of Yemen had actually sunk the Ugly Nation's aircraft carrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did you do it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, even if they did not know how it was done, so what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as they could strike the Ugly Nation, they were all extremely happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let alone taking down the symbol of the Ugly Nation's military power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ironically, the President of Syria directly designated the day the Ugly Nation's aircraft carrier was sunk as the future National Day of Syria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately afterward, he received congratulations from Commander Suman of the Holy City Brigade of Iran, representing the Supreme Leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hezbollah of Lebanon, the Taliban of Afghanistan, and others successively sent congratulatory telegrams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(PS: For this new book, I beg for flowers, tips, and review tickets; your support is the author's motivation!)\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Just as the Ugly Country was forming a joint investigation team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Al Jazeera broadcast a video.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group of armed militants, holding AK-47s, with faces covered and wearing camouflage uniforms, announced in the video that they were responsible for\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the recent sinking of the Ugly Country's aircraft carrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, they displayed a Yingji-18 missile (casing).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turned out that although the Hu Sai militants had already fired all 50 missiles during the attack two days prior,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they had subsequently manufactured a replica Yingji-18 missile casing themselves to display.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This missile featured gray paint with the black characters \"YJ-18\" printed on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From its appearance, it looked like an aircraft with short wings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, as this video was broadcast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon Country side could no longer remain calm; Yingji-18.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn't this exactly the same as the new anti-ship missile they were about to equip?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both in appearance and name, they were identical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who had leaked this secret?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, it would be impossible for an ordinary nation to produce such an advanced anti-ship missile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Investigate! We must investigate!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The high command of the military immediately launched a strict investigation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They soon uncovered some foreign spies hidden within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that is a story for later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the video broadcast on Al Jazeera announcing responsibility for the incident,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they also expressed great gratitude to the DWS platform for supporting the Middle Eastern resistance against the Ugly Country's atrocities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the militants declared they would continue their war against the Ugly Country,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>until not a single soldier or trooper of the Ugly Country remained in the Middle East.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Additionally, these militants announced they would behead the captured Ugly Country pilots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Essentially, this was equivalent to declaring war on the Ugly Country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was clear that this group was truly brave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, on the Ugly Country's side, after a simple investigation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and particularly after analyzing the missile in the video, it was easy to conclude that it was a latest-model missile from the Dragon Country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The press secretary of the Little White House announced the preliminary investigation results.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the Dragon Country's Yingji-18 missile suddenly became famous worldwide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, this was the missile that had directly destroyed a Ugly Country aircraft carrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many nations flocked to log into their DWS platform accounts, eager to purchase this weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the listing for the Yingji-18 missile on the shop was already marked (Sold Out).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously, they would definitely not be able to buy this kind of missile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, although Lin Yi was busy making money, he was not foolish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would never massively sell off the Dragon Country's active-duty equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this scene, the Dragon Country military finally breathed a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, they would have truly worried that their trump card would become a cheap street vendor's item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, regarding the DWS weapons trading platform, the Dragon Country remained, as always, both loving and hating it, deeply conflicted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And following this aircraft carrier sinking incident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon Country's weapons achieved instant fame, with many customers around the globe beginning to order Dragon Country weapons on the DWS platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orders for Dragon Country weapons even surpassed those of Mao Xiong for a time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, facing such a hot weapons market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon Country itself could only look on helplessly; unless the transaction served a political purpose,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>otherwise, any normal person would choose a cheaper weapons supplier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Yi's original vision was gradually taking shape at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When people thought of weapons, they thought of the DWS platform, not the nations that created these weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unknowingly, people's dependence on the DWS weapons trading platform grew stronger and stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, as the video from Al Jazeera was broadcast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Northern Yue nations, led by the Ugly Country, began to point their fingers directly at the Dragon Country.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They demanded that the Dragon Country shut down the DWS weapons trading platform.\u003C\u002Fp>",1261,"2026-06-16T04:12:22.327Z","2026-06-16T04:35:02.051Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","6940cb91db8dbe8da99b4930e71dbd0eafa1f356806d3ef62b366ff0f1d13f2f","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-115","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-113",328,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-cover.jpg"]