Chapter 53

Right above the shop, an announcement appeared: "Warm congratulations to the Dragon Nation Flagship Store for surpassing $100 million in sales during the Double 11 event."

Although this sales figure pales in comparison to Dragon Nation Taobao's 57.1 billion Chinese Yuan.

However, the profitability of an arms dealer and an ordinary e-commerce platform are simply not comparable.

After all, the latter bears various operational costs.

Whereas the Dragon Nation Flagship Store does not.

Taobao's seemingly massive 57.1 billion in sales actually yields very little profit.

Yet, even after launching Double 11 and the 'Chop Once' promotion, Lin Yi's profit still reached 30 million USD, equivalent to roughly 180 million Chinese Yuan.

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Of course, the one-hundred-million-dollar sales figure Lin Yi announced on the flagship store's website was just as fabricated as the claims made by other e-commerce platforms.

The whole point was simply to create a frenzy.

This time, for the Double Eleven event.

The actual transaction volume for the Dragon Nation flagship store amounted to $89.1258 million.

This sum of money immediately vanished from the account.

The CIA, which had been monitoring this overseas bank account all along, reacted the moment the funds suddenly disappeared.

The intelligence officer in charge of the matter found it utterly unbelievable, his eyes bulging wide.

After all, since bank accounts were involved.

The Ugly Nation's intelligence agencies had naturally made advance arrangements, strictly controlling the bank account of the Dragon Nation flagship store.

All in the hope of finding some clue.

Originally, regarding this flagship store's Double Eleven event, the CIA had planned to freeze the account.

However, the result exceeded their expectations.

The bank's backend operations were actually unable to freeze the account.

Not only could they not freeze it, but the nearly ninety million dollars inside it simply vanished just like that.

"What... vanished! Quickly monitor the flow of funds!"

The agent in charge immediately ordered the bank involved.

At the same time, he reported the situation to his superiors.

However, after working on it for quite some time, the bank's technical staff helplessly discovered a fact.

That the money had disappeared without a trace.

Their bank's backend data contained absolutely no record of it.

Yes! The money had mysteriously vanished right under the supervision of both the bank and the Ugly Nation's intelligence agencies.

Upon hearing the bank's explanation.

The agent was furious, smoke practically pouring from his seven orifices, and he scolded.

"Then freeze that bank account for me immediately!"

"Apologies, we still cannot do it!" the bank manager said helplessly.

"Cannot do it, still cannot do it!"

The agent's face was filled with disbelief; oh God, what had he just heard?

As a bank, they were not only unable to monitor the flow of funds in the account.

But now they could not even freeze the account itself.

Are you sure this is real? Is this not some April Fools' prank!?

The agent very much wanted to ask this.

However, the bank staff were actually just as helpless.

Yes! After inspecting that suspicious account, he discovered a terrifying fact.

That after the funds disappeared, the account itself had also vanished from the bank's system.

If he had not been absolutely certain he remembered correctly.

He would have suspected this was a ghost account, similar to a ghost ship.

The account only appeared when it needed to; under normal circumstances, one could not even detect its existence.

Once all transactions were completed, the account would disappear once again.

As for the bank's backend, it possessed absolutely no administrative authority over this account.

After the bank administrator explained the situation.

The agent in charge remained silent for a long time.

Because in his heart, he only wanted to say one word.

FUCK!!!

When both the CIA and the FBI within the Ugly Nation received this news.

Including the Pentagon and the Presidential Office, everyone soon learned of the incident.

This meant that they now faced a terrifying reality.

That if "DWS" truly shipped goods to those organizations that had placed orders.

Then it was hard to imagine just how horrifying the consequences would be.

Vast quantities of arms would flood into the Middle East and various conflict zones.

In the past, those Arabs lacking weapons could still teach the Ugly Nation's soldiers a lesson in localized battles.

But now, with ample weapons and ammunition, what those madmen would do was anyone's guess.

Even if these weapons were relatively outdated.

Regular weapons were still regular weapons; they could by no means be compared to those hand-crafted pipe bombs or liquefied gas missiles.

Most older weapons possessed lethality not much inferior to modern ones.

In fact, some older weapons were banned precisely because they were too cruel.

Such as white phosphorus munitions.

In reality, Lin Yi's Dragon Nation flagship store possessed exactly this kind of item.

However, even the militants in the Middle East had not purchased it, because the thing was too cruel.

Once used, it would be like opening Pandora's Box.

If they were the first to use it, the other side might retaliate in the same manner.

In that case, it would still be them who suffer the loss.

However, even without using prohibited weapons like white phosphorus shells.

Once the weapons purchased from "DWS" this time enter the Middle East,

one can hardly imagine how much pressure that would bring to the Ugly Country's troops stationed in the Middle East.

It is truly difficult to imagine.

At this moment, inside the combat command center of the Pentagon.

A three-star general was listening to a report.

Beside him, the Secretary of Defense also wore an extremely serious expression.

In addition, the White House Chief of Staff was also present; shortly, he would brief His Excellency the President.

"Exactly how many weapons do you estimate will flow into the Middle East!"

the three-star general demanded.

Hearing this, the CIA agent in charge of intelligence work said:

"Just firearms should exceed 100,000 units, with countless various artillery pieces and shells; since we cannot access their backend data to obtain accurate information,

but calculating solely based on transaction volume,

it is possible that weapons equivalent to 1 to 2 billion US dollars have flowed into the Middle East!"

"Oh God!!" The three-star general widened his eyes.

"That's right; because the other party's weapons are far too cheap, these figures of ours are merely estimates.

Based on our own weapon pricing, military equipment worth between 1 and 2 billion US dollars is about to enter the Middle East and other regions!"

the agent stated.

"Is there no way to intercept them?" the Secretary of Defense asked.