[{"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-213":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},2079683,3287,"Chapter 213","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-213",213,"\u003Cp>No matter which country it faced, it never admitted any connection to the DWS platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regarding this, even if many nations had their own ideas,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the fact remained that the army of the DWS platform indeed had no records or serial numbers within the military.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an army that fundamentally did not exist in the Dragon Nation's military sequence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This left every nation unable to find a single handle to grasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One could hardly claim those people must be from the Dragon Nation simply because they looked Asian or drove J-20s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By that logic, those driving M1A2 tanks could just as well be called Ugly Americans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon Nation simply refused to admit anything, adopting an attitude of \"do whatever you want.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you disagree, then come over; the Dragon Nation pledges not to use force first, but it absolutely will not refrain from using force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with this, even the Ugly Nation was completely powerless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, they could only symbolically set some obstacles regarding tariffs on certain goods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, in doing so, it was actually the Ugly Americans whose cost of living increased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, what left Lin Yi both amused and helpless was that\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the tariffs on the batteries he exported to Tesla had also been significantly raised by the Ugly Americans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the one who should be headache over this matter was Ma Ma Sike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Lin Yi was only responsible for the delivered-at-place price; no matter how much the Ugly Nation's tariffs rose, it was Ma Ma Sike who suffered the loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless Tesla stopped using the Super Dominator battery series.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But having already made such bold claims, how could Ma Ma Sike possibly take them back?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only distribute this portion of the cost among consumers to ensure Tesla's interests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simply put, the price of all Tesla electric vehicles in the Ugly Nation had gone up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(PS: For the new book, we seek flowers, tips, and review tickets; your support is the author's motivation!)\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Regarding this, Ma Ma Sike specifically made an international call to Lin Yi to complain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, compared to the excitement on the Dragon Nation side,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Ugly Nation, Britain, and the Stick Nation were suffering greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Pentagon estimated that the Dragon Nation's troop strength this time should not exceed 1,500 men,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>these very 1,500 men truly shocked the Ugly Nation's military.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After frame-by-frame analysis of the live broadcast,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>focusing on the soldiers' terrifying combat proficiency and their fearless determination to die,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>experts in the Ugly Nation analyzed that even if the Britain-led forces had not lost air superiority under the circumstances at the time,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in a direct confrontation, the British soldiers would absolutely not be a match for the opponent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, during this battle, the Dragon Nation deployed dozens of top-tier J-20 stealth fighter jets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having lost heavy firepower support,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the British and other allied forces were simply powerless to fight back and were slaughtered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was hard to imagine that if all of the Dragon Nation's armies were of this caliber,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>on what basis could the Ugly Nation claim to be the world's number one military power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the Ugly Nation also understood\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that Dragon Nation soldiers could not possibly be this lavish everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Equipping a single battalion-level unit with so many J-20 stealth fighters, helicopters, tanks, and howitzers—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>such a configuration was something the Dragon Nation could not afford to maintain, let alone the Ugly Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A force of a thousand men like this burned money at a rate comparable to an aircraft carrier fleet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there were several such fleets, even the Ugly Nation could not bear the burden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, this DWS Platform army must be the elite of the elite within the Dragon Nation's military,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the very best of the best.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon Nation deployed them on the Syrian battlefield solely to intimidate the various nations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, according to intelligence obtained by the Ugly Nation's intelligence agencies,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>after witnessing the Dragon Nation's performance, many countries expressed their intention to pay friendly state visits to the Dragon Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was evident that the Dragon Nation's international status was rising rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, this was something the Ugly Nation did not wish to see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the problem was that the Ugly Nation truly had no remaining capacity to deal with the Dragon Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just thinking about such an elite thousand-man force, capable of easily devouring a British armored brigade, stationed right beside them—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to be honest, the fifty thousand Ugly Nation troops currently attacking Homs City were filled with dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Correct! They were now terrified that this army would suddenly charge over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, they would have to face bombardment from dozens of J-20 aircraft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under such circumstances, the Ugly Nation troops did not even dare to dispatch fighter jets to engage, as the Ugly Nation's older carrier-based aircraft were all obsolete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were simply unsuitable for fighting fifth-generation fighters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they forced a battle, the result would be tragic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only aircraft capable of engaging the J-20 was the F-22, which was also a fifth-generation fighter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, facing the threat of the J-20, the Ugly Nation government planned to restart the F-22 production line and upgrade its radar and beyond-visual-range missiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this was by no means something that could be accomplished overnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially since this year was an election year in the Ugly Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An unreliable candidate was even clamoring that he would seriously consider the war in Syria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once a new president took office, Ugly Nation policies could change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the fifty thousand Ugly Nation troops in Homs City would receive no support whatsoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In contrast, the Xuzheng Prefecture army could now be described as singing and dancing to welcome the \"Royal Army.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the capital, Damascus,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Syrian President summoned representatives of this DWS Platform mercenary group, and both sides engaged in what could only be described as a warm exchange in Syria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Syrian President even directly grasped the mercenary representative's hand, tears welling in his eyes:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By Allah above, you have arrived just in time; the friendship of your honorable nation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>we Syria shall forever keep in our hearts...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heaven knew the truth; in recent years, the Syrian President had been driven to extreme misery by Western nations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The civil war had raged domestically for so many years, leaving the people's livelihood in ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet ever since the Xuzheng Prefecture army encountered the DWS Platform, their luck seemed to have turned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although they currently faced an offensive from the Ugly Nation troops,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as long as the DWS Platform existed—or more accurately, as long as there was covert support from the Dragon Nation—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he believed that future victory would undoubtedly belong to the Syrian side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This point was beyond doubt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yesterday, the Syrian President had placed a call to the Great Leader far away in the Imperial Capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Great Leader spoke very few words throughout the call, the Syrian President kept expressing his gratitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this reason, he prepared that once the situation in Syria stabilized,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he would fly to the Dragon Nation for a state visit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, he sincerely wished to express his thanks; on the other, he wanted to witness the greatness of the Dragon Nation firsthand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the country he had long yearned for in his dreams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this reason, he and his wife had even chosen Dragon Nation names for themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mercenary representative, however, was exceedingly humble:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is our duty, Your Excellency, Mr. President!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have long heard that you people of Dragon Nation are very modest, but at this moment, there is no need for such restraint; let the beautiful girls of Xuzheng Prefecture cheer for you...!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the President of Xuzheng Prefecture finished speaking,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>many beautiful women from Xuzheng Prefecture came forward with flower garlands and placed them around the necks of everyone, including those mercenaries.\u003C\u002Fp>",1315,"2026-06-16T04:16:39.910Z","2026-06-16T04:35:04.683Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","b5b6742a318951b021a75d2fc6722362f746f3af07bb94fb830c4a1da5e23ffa","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-214","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-212",328,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-cover.jpg"]