50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 485 RSV Group is finished
A signature breakfast in Rotterdam consists of two types of bread, one of which is a thin slice called hagelslag, available in various flavors such as chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla.

Another type of rye bread is made with spices such as cloves, cinnamon, or nutmeg, and often contains dried fruit and lemon zest.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. As long as it's not particularly bad, Sun Zhiwei is willing to try local specialties whenever he goes to a new place.

He ate bread and coffee while reading the newspaper.

He was very satisfied with the newspaper's report. This "New Rotterdam Business Daily" is quite good. It was they who exposed this arms sale in advance, which is how our family found out.

Now they're fabricating the cause of the fire again, filling in all the details that Sun Zhiwei missed.

You know what, their reporters actually made up some plausible stories.

The office building of the Rotterdam Dry Dock Company is indeed an old-fashioned building from before World War II.

The problem of aging wiring in the building is absolutely real. If Sun Zhiwei didn't start the fire, he would have truly believed it.

As for the losses suffered by the Rotterdam Dry Dock Company, apart from an old office building, they are probably not much.

The design blueprints for those ships must be backed up at the RSV Group headquarters.

Sun Zhiwei's real target wasn't the building itself; the blueprints were just an unexpected bonus. His true objective was their shipyard.

The Rotterdam Dry Dock Company has six dry docks at its local shipyard, two of which are used to build submarines.

Currently, the Amsterdam Navy's first Walrus-class submarine is under construction in one of the two submarine docks.

The other one is idle, ready to be used to build the export version of the Hailong-class submarine that is about to be agreed upon.

RSV Group is now struggling, as its shareholders are unwilling to increase investment to meet the Navy's endless demands for submarine development.

With the old dockyard building destroyed by fire, RSV headquarters likely doesn't have the funds to build a new office building for them.

The dock company's six docks are their only source of revenue, and they desperately need orders to survive.

The shipyard is just there; even without building ships, it still requires hundreds of thousands of dollars in basic maintenance costs every year. Without orders, RSV will go bankrupt.

The six docks are arranged in a straight line, with two submarine docks in the middle. A row of warehouses along the shore is used to store spare parts and auxiliary facilities needed for shipbuilding.

The Walrus-class submarine under construction has had its internal equipment installed and is currently floating in the dock undergoing outfitting.

The Walrus-class submarine is 67.73 meters long, 8.4 meters wide, and has a displacement of 2800 tons. It is equipped with four 533 mm torpedo tubes.

连潜艇配备的预装弹药：10枚MK48 Mod7经济型鱼雷，10枚“鱼叉”AGM-84反舰导弹都已经存在旁边的仓库中，就等舾装完毕就运上潜艇准备试航。

These 10 torpedoes and 10 missiles are not from the RSV Group, but were purchased by the Amsterdam Navy from the Convention Organization to equip its new submarines.

These are all products from the US. Even though they are members of the convention organization, they still get preferential treatment when purchasing them.

但一枚“鱼叉”AGM-84反舰导弹也需要支付120万美元，而一枚MK48 Mod7经济型鱼雷更是需要380万美元，这20枚弹药总价值5000万美元。

Although the price of ammunition is nothing compared to the $14 billion cost of this Walrus-class submarine, ammunition is a consumable item, and its consumption will be staggering in the future.

In the shipyard, the outfitting of the Walrus-class ships is progressing rapidly and is nearing completion. Sun Zhiwei disguises himself and enters the shipyard every day to check on the progress.

Five days later, outfitting was officially completed. He received accurate information from the engineers' conversation: loading of ammunition would begin at 9 a.m. the next day, and the official sea trial would start at 2 p.m. The next day, Sun Zhiwei got up very early and arrived at the dock early. Then, from a distance of several hundred meters, he used spatial monitoring to observe the ammunition depot on the shore.

At 8:30 a.m., the workers opened the ammunition depot and began using a crane to lift missiles. Sun Zhiwei immediately removed the safety pins from all the missiles and torpedoes.

Just as a Harpoon AGM-84 anti-ship missile was lifted off the ground and suspended in mid-air, Sun Zhiwei remotely cut the steel cable at the front end using space.

Suddenly, the Harpoon missile fell from the sky nose-down, tail-up, leaving everyone around stunned and filled with terror.

"Boom!" A loud explosion came from the ammunition depot, and the resulting flames and black smoke shot into the sky.

The massive shockwave ripped off the walls and roof of the ammunition depot, scattering piles of debris in all directions.

In the instant of the explosion, Sun Zhiwei collected the remaining 9 missiles and 10 torpedoes, and then quickly threw 14 of them into 6 docks.

The five vacant docks each received two, while the dock where the Walrus-class submarines were located received four.

The explosions followed immediately, and the entire shipyard was reduced to ruins within a minute, with thick smoke billowing and alarming the entire port of Rotterdam.

Sun Zhiwei was hundreds of meters away from the explosion site, and several buildings absorbed the shockwave, but he was still blinded by the towering flames.

There were so many things that could burn in the shipyard, including all kinds of flammable materials and stored fuel.

Sensing that he could no longer stay here, he quickly used his spatial ability to check the results of the battle.

The Walrus-class submarine in the dock had been blown in two and was slowly sinking. It seemed there was no need to finish it off, so he quickly fled the scene.

Shortly after he left, the first person to arrive at the scene was a reporter from the Neue Rotterdam Business Daily.

After they reported the fire at the Rotterdam dry dock company's office building a few days ago, newspaper sales jumped.

The reporter responsible for the report was rewarded with a large bonus by the company. In his excitement, he staked out the shipyard next to the dock company, hoping to obtain more news material.

He actually got his wish; the deafening explosion and the towering flames were sure to make headlines.

The reporter braved the danger and rushed into the fire, rescuing two workers.

From the workers, the reporter obtained firsthand information: an accidental explosion in the ammunition depot caused the ammunition to detonate, and the new submarine ordered by the Navy for $14 billion was sunk by the detonated missile.

The reporter quickly identified several key words: missile, submarine, $14 billion.

At the same time, he came to a conclusion: RSV Group is finished.

$14 billion! Does RSV Group have that much money?

I heard they're in financial trouble now, and they definitely can't afford to pay back $14 billion. If they can't pay it back, they'll go bankrupt, so they're finished.

If even a journalist could reach this conclusion, Sun Zhiwei could naturally have figured it out as well, and he had achieved his goal.

The results still need to be confirmed. Of course, this is his internal assessment of the results and cannot be reported directly.

(End of this chapter)