Chapter 272

To be honest, the simultaneous appearance of five aircraft carrier strike groups

had already completely overturned the understanding of ordinary people.

A navy of this scale was something even the Ugly Country could not assemble with its full strength.

After all, even now the Ugly Country possessed only two Ford-class carriers, one of which had been auctioned off from the DWS Platform for 12 billion USD.

The other had only recently been launched and had not yet officially entered service.

And even if they were not Ford-class, although the Ugly Country maintained eleven carrier strike groups,

due to the need to safeguard Ugly Country interests worldwide and perform maintenance duties,

they had never gathered four carrier strike groups in a single location.

But now, what they saw was five terrifying carrier strike groups on the sea surface,

their overwhelming aura of grim slaughter simply leaving those on the merchant ships breathless.

"Captain, is the Ugly Country about to go to war with someone?"

a helmsman asked in the captain's cabin.

"Who said that is the Ugly Country's navy? Look at those flags; that is the navy of the DWS Platform!"

The helmsman looked through his binoculars and indeed discovered that the distant aircraft carriers and warships were all flying the flags of the DWS Platform.

"Heavens, could this be the true strength of the DWS Platform? Before, they were just playing around with countries like the Ugly Country and Israel... Otherwise, even the Ugly Country could not possibly deploy so many carrier battle groups..."

The helmsman widened his eyes.

"Perhaps; I am certain some country is about to meet with utter disaster!"

The captain murmured.

Hearing this, the helmsman glanced at the captain in the cabin, then as if thinking of something, he said,

"It can't be, could it..."

"Who told that country they simply had to provoke a madman? Now it has become quite a spectacle.

With this kind of strength, I say we should just add another seat for them among the Five Great Rogues of the United Nations; otherwise, even if the Ugly Country sent all its carriers, they might not be able to suppress the other side..."

As he spoke, he also glanced at the fighter jets patrolling in the sky.

There were at least twenty fully armed F-35 fighter jets providing escort.

And just as this conversation took place aboard this merchant ship,

a merchant ship from Little Japan happened to be passing through this shipping lane.

They stared dumbfounded at the scene before them.

No matter how they thought about it, they had never expected to encounter the massive navy of the DWS Platform here.

Looking at the aircraft carrier and the warships arranged in several lines around it,

they swallowed hard, unable to regain their composure for a long time.

"Oiwa... am I dreaming!?"

a Little Japanese crew member asked his companion.

"Moriyasu, I don't think so... Heavens, what an incredibly vast fleet this is;

even those Ugly Country fellows could not possess such an invincible fleet!"

exclaimed the Little Japanese man named Oiwa,

while deep in his heart he still felt a lingering worry,

because the hatred between the two sides since modern times could simply not be erased.

In the past, Little Japan, relying on the backing of the Ugly Country, had provoked the other side in many places.

Because they had always followed the Ugly Country, catering to their father's policies,

relations between the two sides had become increasingly deteriorated.

But with the rise of the DWS Platform,

the Ugly Country and its allies had suffered successive defeats,

and within Little Japan, the proliferation of firearms combined with the extinguishing of nuclear power plants had triggered a wave of unemployment that was destroying Little Japanese society.

More and more people were beginning to feel dissatisfied with the Little Japanese government.

At this time, the Red Party movement began to spread rampant within Little Japan again.

Led by Kirishima Satoshi, the Red Party had already gathered immense power within Little Japan.

At least several million people supported this party.

Moreover, this party possessed powerful armed forces.

Even the government felt terrified of this party;

the previous warrant for Kirishima Satoshi's arrest had become a mere joke, and now even if Kirishima Satoshi turned himself in, the Little Japanese Metropolitan Police Department would not dare to arrest him.

If they were to do so,

those civilians who supported Kirishima Satoshi and regarded him as their spiritual pillar would very likely blow up the Metropolitan Police Department.

In the past they might not have had weapons,

but now, as long as you had money,

it was even possible to drive a tank through the streets of Tokyo.

As for Kirishima Satoshi himself, he regarded Katayama Sen, the founder of the former Japanese Red Party, as his idol.

He proposed that Little Japan should undergo comprehensive socialization.

They must expel the Ugly Country and fully learn from the Dragon Country,

engaging in deep reflection, offering apologies, and providing compensation for the harm Little Japan had inflicted upon the Dragon Country in those years.

They must actively repair relations with the Dragon Country.

In short, this person was thoroughly pro-Dragon Nation.

Although his ideals had been ignored for a long time in the past,

with Japan's economy stagnating and social order deteriorating,

and the DWS platform of Dragon Nation repeatedly defeating the Ugly Nation and its allies,

Kirishima Satoshi-ism began to flourish in the island nation.

It grew into a massive force throughout the entire island nation.

This fellow even frequently organized study classes, free of charge for those corporate slaves who had been laid off and could not find work,

lecturing on Marxist economics and the like.

He specifically explained the theory of surplus value and the exploitation by capitalists.

Many corporate slaves only had their eyes opened after hearing his lectures, realizing that the value they created was being stripped away by those capitalists.

They were merely receiving some scraps, yet they still had to kneel and beg their masters.

The Japanese Metropolitan Police Department and government intelligence agencies had already sensed that a transformation was underway at the bottom of Japanese society.

They could not predict the future, but they knew that major trouble might be brewing within Japan.

It was precisely at this moment that the vast navy of the DWS platform passed through Japanese waters.

People on Japanese merchant ships could hardly imagine what would happen if this news spread back to their homeland.

How greatly encouraged those Red Party members would be.

Through these merchant ships, news of the carrier battle group spread across the world with remarkable speed.

President Xiao Ao of the Little White House, upon seeing the returned sea and satellite photographs,

was so frightened that he stood utterly stunned.

Five Ford-class carrier battle groups, over three hundred F-35 carrier-based aircraft.

Good heavens! At this moment, President Xiao Ao could not even comprehend what kind of power this was.

It must be remembered that until now, the Ford-class aircraft carriers purchased from the DWS platform for 12 billion dollars

did not even have their full complement of carrier-based aircraft configured.

This was mainly because the Ugly Nation's military had only just begun equipping the F-35 fighter jets,

and the complete production cycle for a single F-35 carrier-based aircraft took at least several months.

Thus, one could not blame the Ford-class carriers for being slow to achieve combat readiness.

In fact, for a new aircraft carrier, from launching to actual commissioning,

it often required several years.

Of course, if the Ugly Nation were willing to abandon the F-35 as its carrier-based aircraft

and instead use the older, more technically mature F-18, that would be a different matter entirely.