[{"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-166":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},2077945,3287,"Chapter 166","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-166",166,"\u003Cp>Among the corpses were men and women, the youngest only a few years old; some bodies were so mangled by the explosion that they had to be covered with white cloth.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otherwise, the sight would have been utterly terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Little Darren watched as the adults around him craned their necks to gaze at the colossal shape soaring overhead, and he sighed inwardly:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Is this the incarnation of Allah? Will it wake up Mom, Dad, and my sister...?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Lin Yi, of course, had no idea that a little girl had mistaken him for the incarnation of Allah himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yet, for the people of Batan, the appearance of this F-22 was akin to a deity descending upon the earth,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>driving away the fighter jets that had been slaughtering them.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Many people immediately fell to their knees and began to pray.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Although Lin Yi was currently merely a projection of consciousness,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>he could still use the infrared imaging system to observe the situation of the people below.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>To be honest, even Lin Yi felt a pang of compassion for these people of Batan.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, their plight was truly miserable.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They had inhabited this homeland for over a thousand years, yet now,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>they were kept confined as if in a prison with the gates locked.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Millions of people were crowded into such a small prison as Jia Sha.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There is a famous saying:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But here in Jia Sha, these people of Batan were born needing to remain in prison.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, Lin Yi did not indulge in such sentiments for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Immediately, he piloted the F-22 through a classic barrel roll maneuver and departed directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Many of the Batan people watched this scene with eyes full of gratitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yet, Lin Yi did not leave the Batan region immediately; instead, he flew straight north.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At this moment, in Tel Aviv, the capital of Yisel.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>News spread that a mysterious fighter jet had appeared and annihilated the Yisel Air Force pilots who had carried out the airstrike on Jia Sha.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The government and military of Yisel were thrown into an uproar.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Furthermore, subsequent reports arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The mysterious aircraft that had destroyed all their fighters was, in fact, an F-22 belonging to the Chou military.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Everyone found this incredibly ironic.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Of course, these government officials and military personnel did not believe this fighter jet was truly a Chou aircraft.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, no matter how one looked at it, a Chou plane would not randomly attack Yisel, whom they supported.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Thus, there was only one explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That this fighter model was a counterfeit produced by the DWS platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, in Syria, the Chou Air Force had already suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of a J-20 from the DWS platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Therefore, it was not unreasonable for the other side to replicate an F-22 stealth fighter now.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But the problem was that although Yisel knew the opponent's aircraft was a copy,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>based on existing intelligence, all replicas from the DWS platform\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>were in no way inferior to the authentic products holding intellectual property rights; in fact, many exceeded the originals in quality and performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Consequently, the Yisel military awkwardly discovered\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>that they had virtually no means to counter this F-22 fighter of the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In terms of aircraft, relying solely on F-15s or F-16s would make them nothing more than living targets.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As for the F-35s that Chou had promised to supply with priority, the earliest delivery would not occur until the end of this year.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But the issue was that even the F-35 multi-role fighter was simply no match for the F-22.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, before the Yisel government could devise a countermeasure,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>an emergency situation arose.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Hatzor Air Base is being bombed by an F-22...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"What!\" The Prime Minister of Yisel exclaimed upon hearing the news, finding it hard to believe.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>It was well known that Hatzor Air Base housed a large number of F-16 fighters, small transport aircraft, and business jets,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>and possibly even G550 Gulfstream early warning and reconnaissance aircraft.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Yet now, this major Yisel Air Force base was being blockaded and bombed at its very gates by a single F-22.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Who would believe such a thing if told!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>After all, how much ordnance could an F-22 carry? At most fourteen missiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This calculation did not even account for the battle that had just taken place in Jia Sha.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Could it be that more than one F-22 was participating in this attack on Yisel?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In reality, the outside world had always been astonished by the payload capacity of DWS platform fighters.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>During the Syrian air battle, how a single J-20 managed to destroy twenty-three Chou military fighters\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>remained a mystery.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Some claimed that certainly more than one J-20 must have participated in the fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otherwise, even if the interior of the J-20 was emptied of everything else\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>and filled entirely with missiles, it would still be impossible to destroy so many Chou aircraft.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The situation was no different now; upon hearing the news, the Premier's first thought was that the other side had dispatched multiple F-22 fighter jets.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Otherwise, relying on a single aircraft for bombing would result in very limited destructive power.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>(PS: For this new book, I ask for flowers, tips, and review votes; your support is the author's motivation!)\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If the damage were not severe, the air base would never have sent successive distress calls.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>At that moment, the highest commander inside Hatzor Air Base screamed frantically into the phone:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Damn it, we are under aerial attack... Requesting support... Requesting support!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Understood, Major General. We have reported the situation to the President.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>We trust the Prime Minister will handle it properly. Now, can you tell me the actual situation there?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Specifically, the number of enemy forces...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The wartime liaison in the capital said.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"God, how would I know the number of enemies? I only know our fighter jets cannot take off,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>and the base is being bombed by countless heavy bombs every minute...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As the Major General commanding the base spoke,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>terrifying explosion sounds seemed to ring right beside his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The entire command center was shaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>As for the enemy,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>sorry, he still had not detected them on the radar system.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>There were reports, however, that someone seemed to have spotted an F-22 fighter jet in the sky from a distant location.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Four two three.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>But given the current scale of the bombing, could a single F-22 fighter jet achieve this?\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Hearing the hysterical voice of the Air Force Major General over the phone,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>the liaison no longer knew what to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Meanwhile, at Hatzor Air Base, one JDAM air-to-ground missile after another struck home.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Fierce fires erupted in many areas throughout the entire base.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Some aircraft hangars, along with the planes inside, were blown straight into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Many aircraft, including F-16 models, attempted an emergency takeoff.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>However, they were blown apart by successive JDAM air-to-ground missiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Chr\u002F>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>— Author's Notes —\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>0 ·Seeking flowers·· ·····\u003C\u002Fp>",1161,"2026-06-16T04:14:27.492Z","2026-06-17T08:50:51.634Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","b20a46081ebab09829ec9bd4b61b07aa7f9a9c6877c7bf86c0cf844f0ee1548e","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-167","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-165",328,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-cover.jpg"]