[{"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-277":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},2081386,3287,"Chapter 277","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-277",277,"\u003Cp>Otherwise, just the five aircraft carriers alone would cost at least $50 billion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire five carrier battle groups would surely amount to $200 billion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality, as Long Country watched the DWS Platform continuously launch salvoes with its Type 55 destroyers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they all felt the pain in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because at Long Country's cost price, this single salvo of over 400 missiles\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>amounted to nearly one and a half billion dollars,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and after just a few such rounds, the cost would equal that of a Ford-class aircraft carrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could Long Country not feel the pain? To be honest, even they would not dare to use these missiles in such a manner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, they had to admit that using them this way was incredibly spectacular and possessed immense destructive power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had they not seen that after just a few rounds, various regions of South Korea were paralyzed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every base scattered across South Korea suffered attacks from dozens of medium-range missiles,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>leaving many bases unrecognizable, with huge craters dotting the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, major government departments in South Korea were completely paralyzed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All naval bases suffered devastating strikes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the assault of F-35 carrier-based aircraft and Yingji-18 missiles, ship after ship sank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for air defense systems,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>South Korea had fired almost every piece of ammunition they could launch,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet it produced virtually no effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the contrary, although the short-range Tianma system intercepted some Yingji-18 missiles, it had no impact on the overall battle situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, this rate of consumption was astonishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having made no preparations, South Korea ran out of ammunition in no time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What awaited them instead was even more missiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A soldier operating an air defense system watched a missile flying toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only had time to utter one phrase:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xi Ba!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he was blown sky-high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After South Korea exhausted its air defense ammunition, what brought even greater despair to its people was\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>six B-2 bombers descending from the clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrounding them were at least twenty F-22 fighter jets providing escort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing these B-2s, everyone, including the South Korean government, fell into complete despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, these aircraft did not bomb; they merely circled the capital once before departing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, their message had been conveyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subsequently, the DWS Platform issued a statement:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given South Korea's unfriendly actions, if South Korea was willing to pay $10 billion in compensation\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and hand over the involved coast guard personnel to Long Country,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the matter would end there. The DWS Platform was an organization that loved peace\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and did not wish to cause excessive slaughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fact that the DWS Platform had not attacked civilians up to this point served as proof.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the DWS Platform released this statement,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>South Korea agreed almost without hesitation, after all, if the opponent's B-2 bombers were to unleash a frantic bombardment on the capital,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the losses would far exceed a mere $10 billion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, after securing Long Country's consent, they obediently transferred $10 billion to the DWS Platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did everything come to an abrupt halt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Large numbers of carrier-based aircraft immediately departed from South Korea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, basically, little of South Korea's navy remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could be said that, overall, South Korea's situation was now similar to that of Britain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This left South Korea with tears but no voice to cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having already suffered such massive losses, they were still required to compensate the other party $10 billion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this was not banditry, what was?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could be said that from now on, besides the Ugly Country,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there was another bandit in this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, this bandit was even more ruthless and more frenzied than the United States.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, after this incident, South Korea would never again provoke the DWS Platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were truly not a small nation capable of provoking such an entity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, after this event, those within the country who harbored hostility toward Long Country people would likely restrain themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, no one wanted such an event to happen again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the fate of those coast guard personnel, surely no one would want to visit Long Country either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, in the capital of South Korea, apart from billowing thick smoke and fires breaking out everywhere,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>with fire trucks frantically battling the blazes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>everything seemed to begin settling back into calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the women of the Stick Nation trembled as they emerged from the air raid shelters,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then gazed upon the city, now a scene of utter devastation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those people from DWS have really left!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems so; after all, the government paid ten billion US dollars!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh, if only we had known this earlier, why would we have provoked the Dragon Nation in the first place?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Never mind, regardless of how this happened, being able to settle matters for ten billion US dollars is something for which we should thank heaven and earth!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Indeed, when I saw the B2 bombers, I nearly wet myself in fear; if those things had unleashed a frenzied bombardment on the capital, the losses would have been terrifying, far beyond what a mere ten billion US dollars could cover!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank Buddha, thank God, now that this matter has passed, from this day forward I will never again harbor hostility toward the people of the Dragon Nation,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"their true strength is too terrifying; I estimate that even the Ugly Nation must now be filled with dread!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Actually, I long felt that the rise of the Dragon Nation was inevitable, yet the government insisted on erasing Chinese characters, creating such a huge rift between us and the Dragon people!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, and the cause of this entire affair lies with the government...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following this attack, many in the Stick Nation no longer blamed the people of the Dragon Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, quite a few Stick Nation citizens felt that the root cause of this incident was the fault of their own government.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they had handled this matter reasonably, how could the Stick Nation have provoked such a powerful Dragon Nation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some scholars even argued that with such a vast disparity in power, for the Stick Nation to still provoke the Dragon Nation\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was extremely foolish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, these same people had never considered that before this attack,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they themselves had been everywhere boycotting the Dragon Nation and were staunch supporters of the government's absolute refusal to compromise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after a single attack,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the attitude of the Stick Nation's populace underwent a complete one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turnaround.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon Nation citizens who had previously suffered discrimination within the Stick Nation were now greeted with overwhelming enthusiasm by the Stick Nation people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And all of this was due solely to a brief war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, this is quite understandable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people of the Stick Nation are simply the type who bully the weak and fear the strong; previously, they looked down on the Dragon Nation in every way\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>because the Dragon Nation adhered to a peaceful foreign policy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what the Stick Nation did, with their Ugly Nation father protecting them,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Dragon Nation could do nothing to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, precisely because of this, the Stick Nation could act without any scruples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now? After a brief war,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Stick Nation finally understood the terror of the Dragon Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>",1203,"2026-06-16T04:26:56.390Z","2026-06-16T04:35:04.683Z",1,"Qwen3.5 397B","3389bbbd1069cac4966f8fa1d44f3d531bbb2e95b7b49926d23bf8adb12a1d6f","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-278","arms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-chapter-276",328,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farms-tycoon-starting-with-a-hundred-billion-doll-cover.jpg"]