[{"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-238":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},2079945,3287,"Chapter 238","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-238",238,"\u003Cp>As a result, this aircraft carrier likely set a record:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>namely, the record of sinking before even officially entering service.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond that, the people of Longguo witnessed how a massive aerial bomb from a B-2 bomber blew a warship sky-high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They saw the warship blown cleanly in two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a breathtaking spectacle truly made the people of Longguo shout with exhilaration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people, late at night, actually grabbed bottles of baijiu and gulped down several mouthfuls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if only by drinking heavily could they express the boldness swelling in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, some even thought of heroes who had resisted John Bull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan Tianpei, Lin Lin Zexu, and others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These ancients probably never imagined that,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>more than a hundred years later, the people of Longguo could achieve all this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the internet, someone even wrote:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Zhongyin (Guan's courtesy name), Yuanfu (Lin's courtesy name), seeing this scene, can you now rest in peace?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many recalled Lin Lin Zexu's verse:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it benefits the nation, I will give my life; how could I avoid danger or seek fortune for myself!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene unfolding now was the finest reply to that line of poetry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless people poured out their thoughts online; many felt they would not be satisfied unless they spoke their minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Longguo was a victor in the Second World War,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>one matter has always remained etched in the hearts of its people, carved into their souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is, John Bull has never apologized for the harm it once inflicted upon Longguo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those exquisite Longguo artifacts displayed one by one inside the British Museum\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>seem to tear at the wounds in every Longguo person's heart at every moment, like John Bull's mockery of Longguo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We are a vast nation; looking back over thousands of years of ancient history,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when have we ever suffered such humiliation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the motives of the DWS Platform remain unclear and their actions bear no banner of justice,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>at this moment, nearly every Longguo person with normal values would regard them as heroes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The century-old humiliation of Longguo has now been swept away entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the current President, standing in his position, would certainly condemn the DWS Platform's actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But setting aside his identity, as an ordinary person of Longguo,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>at this moment, his heart holds only admiration and pride.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His admiration stems from the fact that the DWS Platform accomplished what Longguo wished to do but dared not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His pride arises because, even though the DWS Platform is not under government control,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as long as they are people of Longguo, all people of Longguo have enough reason to be proud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, in contrast to the excitement and frenzied tipping by the people of Longguo,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the people of John Bull felt their hearts bleeding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their pride and the last fig leaf of their \"sun never sets\" empire had been ruthlessly torn apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching warship after warship blown into the sky by heavy aerial bombs or split in two,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>endless sorrow surged in the hearts of the people of John Bull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They knew that after this battle,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the entire Royal Navy could be said to have been annihilated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More than sixty percent of their surface vessels, including their sole aircraft carrier, had sunk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, a large number of naval personnel had perished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given John Bull's already declining strength, the magnitude of this loss\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would likely take twenty years or more to recover from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that did not even account for the damage to their international reputation;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a John Bull without a navy was simply worthless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could be said that after this battle, the former glory of the \"sun never sets\" empire was completely gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Across the entire European continent, John Bull would become a second-rate nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could all this not fill the people of John Bull with sorrow and hatred?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they knew the person behind the DWS Platform, these people would likely wish to tear his flesh apart with their teeth and drink his blood in fury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, after reducing the entire Portsmouth Harbor base to flat ground,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>global audiences assumed the live broadcast would end there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet it did not; instead, six B-2 bombers were seen closing their bomb-bay doors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just after the B-2 bombers sealed their bays, amid plumes of black smoke,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the emptied bomb bays were once again filled with missiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since these aircraft all belonged to Lin Yi, they naturally possessed the function of infinite ammunition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing a force comprising two squadrons of fighter jets and six B-2 bombers heading toward London,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this scene shocked the entire world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people widened their eyes in astonishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What exactly did the DWS Platform intend to do? Bomb London?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One must remember that London has a population of over eight million; if these fighter jets and bombers were to conduct carpet bombing across London,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the death toll would be incalculable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some Longguo netizens were being too saintly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"DWS Platform, you've gone too far! I supported you when you blew up those warships and even tipped hundreds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but if you bomb London's civilians, that is inhumane!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Exactly! We regarded you as heroes beneath the nation, but bombing civilians is not something heroes would do!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there were also those who opposed such remarks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's right! Bomb London flat; I'm with you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let John Bull experience the same suffering Longguo endured when the Anglo-French Alliance captured the Imperial Capital!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take down John Bull...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Prime Minister saw this scene through the video feed, he was so enraged that his liver and gallbladder seemed to shatter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet facing two squadrons, forty of the world's most advanced stealth fighters,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even London's air defense systems would be of little use.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for sending up John Bull's mainstay aircraft, the Typhoon fighter,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the result would be no different from what had just occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, regardless of the circumstances, even knowing death was certain,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they still had to scramble and engage the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, a sense of tragic heroism pervaded John Bull's air force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, inside the White House, President Xiao Ao also sighed with pity for their ally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the DWS Platform bombed John Bull's London,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John Bull would be utterly devastated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only had nearly all their main warships sunk, causing countless deaths,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but now their capital was about to be bombed as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given the destructive power of the B-2, London's losses would likely be terrifying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although President Xiao Ao had never intended to dispatch Chou military forces to provide support from start to finish,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this did not prevent him from feeling sympathy for John Bull in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire DWS Platform aircraft formation flew in an inverted triangle formation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty J-20s were on the left, another twenty F-22s on the right, protecting the B-2 bomber group positioned at the rear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When radar detected a formation of fighter jets approaching from the distance,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>several fighters from each flank flew out and began launching beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles.\u003C\u002Fp>",1157,"2026-06-16T04:17:44.663Z","2026-06-16T04:35:04.683Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","3f99cdf1a2d41e507ddbfbcae1641a2e47cf174c58f6e97a59fa175230b672a9","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-239","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-237",328,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-cover.jpg"]