When I went home for Chinese New Year, I spent a million times more money on my foreign wife.

Chen Yue's phone rang again at four in the morning.

"Brother, Ivan has sent over all the videos from the front lines."

"What video?"

"This footage was taken by a war correspondent accompanying the 9th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of Russia. It shows the entire process of a stealth drone attacking the SkyShield-4 position, in high definition and without any censorship. Even the serial numbers on the launch vehicles are clearly visible. There are twelve segments in total, each corresponding to a position."

"How did the filming go?"

"Well—" Chen Yue paused, "a three-billion-dollar air defense system went from being powered on to becoming scrap metal in less than ninety seconds. If Lockheed Martin saw these images, their CEO would probably have a heart attack on the spot."

Chen Yang put down his coffee cup.

"Send it out."

"Where to send it?"

"All platforms. Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Telegram, globally synchronized. Using our network of accounts cultivated overseas, we can cover the entire internet within an hour."

"Where are the trending topics?"

"Buy it. The top three spots on all trending topics lists, buy them out for 24 hours. No budget limit."

"I've come up with a title: 'The $8.7 billion SkyShield-4 was reduced to scrap metal by a palm-sized drone'?"

"Okay. Let's add a subtitle: 'Loch Mazda shareholders, we suggest you stay up all night.'"

Chen Yue chuckled.

"Brother, are you trying to nail Lockheed Martin's coffin lid shut before the market even opens?"

"My 20 billion short position is still sitting there, and I can't sleep until it's locked up."

"Understood. I'll arrange it right away."

The phone hangs up.

Chen Yang walked to the window. It was still dark in Mo City, and a thin mist floated on the river in the distance.

-

Six hours later.

Twelve high-definition videos went viral on the global internet.

Chen Yue did more than just buy trending topics. She had her team cut the video into a 15-second short version, adding the most straightforward English subtitles—"This is what 8.7 billion dollars looks like."

For fifteen seconds, the screen showed only one thing: the SkyShield-4 launcher was hit by a thermobaric bomb dropped by a drone, the fireball engulfed the entire valley, and the chain reaction of the ammunition explosion turned equipment worth hundreds of millions of dollars into twisted metal debris.

The number of views exceeded 200 million within three hours.

Global military forums, financial media, and social media platforms are all discussing the same thing—Lockheed Martin's SkyShield-4 air defense system, which boasts a "97% interception rate," failed to stop even a single drone.

It's not a failed interception.

The radar simply didn't detect the target.

Analysts at the New York Stock Exchange started making frantic phone calls two hours before the market opened.

Chen Yue's report arrived on time.

"Brother, pre-market trading has already started. Lockheed Martin's stock price plummeted to 362 in pre-market trading, a drop of over 25%."

"What about the other military industry companies?"

"Raytheon fell 18%, Northrop Grumman fell 15%, and General Dynamics fell 12%. The entire defense sector collapsed, and funds are fleeing in droves."

"What about our positions?"

"Two billion short positions were established at an average price of 467. Based on the current pre-market price of 362, the unrealized profit has already exceeded 4.5 billion US dollars. But this is before the official opening, and I predict there will be another wave of panic selling after the market opens."

"Wait for the market to open."

-

At 9:30 a.m. New York time, the opening bell rang.

Lockheed Martin's stock performance is a foregone conclusion.

The opening price gapped down to 341, a full 30% drop from yesterday's closing price.

The sell orders were lined up in a long queue, but there wasn't a single buy order.

Three minutes later, the first circuit breaker was triggered, suspending trading for fifteen minutes.

Chen Yue's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Brother, the circuit breaker has been triggered for the first time. If the price continues to fall to 35% after trading resumes, a second circuit breaker will be triggered."

"It will trigger."

How can you be so sure?

"Because Lockheed Martin's CEO, Wayne Harris, hasn't issued any statement yet. If he doesn't speak out, the market will assume the video is real, and SkyShield-4 is useless. Nobody will buy it."

Trading resumed fifteen minutes later.

Lockheed Martin's stock price plummeted from 341 to 317 in nine seconds.

The circuit breaker tripped for the second time.

Thor then triggered the first circuit breaker.

Norger couldn't hold on either.

The market value of the entire US military industry sector evaporated by more than $300 billion in forty minutes.

Chen Yue's voice was slightly tense.

"Bro, Wall Street is going crazy. Military enthusiasts have identified the serial numbers in the video, and they match perfectly with the arms sales list released by the U.S. Department of Defense. Lockheed Martin can't deny it. Now all funds holding military stocks are cutting their losses, and two mid-sized hedge funds have already gone bankrupt."

When should we close our positions?

"You decide."

"Wait for the third circuit breaker."

-

The third circuit breaker was triggered at 1 p.m.

Lockheed Martin's stock price settled at 289.

From its historical high of 489, it has fallen by 40%.

Chen Yang picked up the phone.

"All flat."

Chen Yue's fingers flew across the keyboard, and the closing orders for all thirty accounts were executed within two minutes.

"Brother, everything's settled. Total profit—"

She paused for three seconds.

"196.7 billion US dollars. Adding the 2.7 billion US dollars earned from the one-third of the positions that were closed earlier, this battle has yielded a total of nearly 200 billion US dollars."

"The money will first be collected into the Chinese currency account of the Kunlun system."

"Received. Also, the latest news from Wall Street—a large fund called Eagle Nest Capital, which had heavily invested in Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, saw its entire portfolio wiped out today. Their founder was just dragged off the roof of his office by security guards."

"It has nothing to do with me."

"I know. Are there any other arrangements?"

"Wingship Technology's stealth drone production line expansion will allocate 30 billion yuan from this fund, increasing production capacity fivefold within three months. Ivan's second batch of orders will be delivered within two weeks."

"Understood. Brother, you should go to sleep; you haven't slept for thirty-six hours."

"Um."

Chen Yang hung up the phone and turned off all the screens in the study.

At the end of the corridor, Katyusha leaned against the door frame, draped in a velvet bathrobe.

"Are you done with your work?"

"I'm done with work."

"How much did you earn?"

"That's enough to buy you two more gold mines."

Katyusha turned and walked towards the bedroom, and Chen Yang followed, closing the study door behind him.