"It's still too little," the old entrepreneur said. "All wealthy humans should set aside some money each year for scientists researching anti-aging technology."
"I heard there's a rich guy in North America doing anti-aging experiments. I wonder how that's going."
Anti-aging experiments?
When Chen Yiyang heard this topic, his body unconsciously leaned forward a bit.
Although he's still young.
After this year's birthday, he's only thirty-two.
But his physical functions are indeed much different from a few years ago.
If there really is anti-aging technology that could keep his physical functions around his twenties or thirties, that would be wonderful.
So he started pretending to eat the delicious food in front of him while carefully listening to the old guys' conversation.
But the more he listened, the more it sounded like the wealthy person they're discussing is a fraud.
The person they're talking about conducting anti-aging experiments is called Johnson, a North American Silicon Valley tycoon.
And he also has a nickname, dubbed Blood Brother.
The reason for this nickname is that this forty-five-year-old wealthy man made a decision to stay young.
Which is to swap blood with his 17-year-old son and 70-year-old father.
Blood transfusion in North America belongs to a kind of half-mystical, half-scientific medical treatment.
The scientific part is that scientists have done experiments where blood from young rats is extracted and injected into older rats, finding that the older rats' cognitive abilities, metabolism, and bones improved.
But there isn't experimental data to support whether injecting young human blood into older humans will improve older humans' physical functions.
However, even though there's no data to support it, just the mere possibility makes it worth trying for wealthy people.
But in the West, blood transfusions might be associated with the image of vampires, leading to public protests.
So everyone does it secretly.
But this Johnson fellow brought it to the forefront.
Though, perhaps worried about causing trouble, Johnson didn't use stranger's blood for his transfusions, but opted to use his seventeen-year-old son's blood.
So, Johnson's 17-year-old son first has 1L of blood extracted, converted into plasma via a centrifuge, then injected into Johnson.
Johnson then extracts his own blood, undergoes the same process, and injects it into his seventy-year-old father, conducting a three-generational blood exchange experiment.
Chen Yiyang felt a shiver of disgust at this point.
This is like using his own son as a medicine lead.
Even if this does a bit of good, he couldn't accept it.
It feels too disgusting.
So he decisively stopped listening.
Another younger entrepreneur beside Chen Yiyang also couldn't continue listening.
But his reason was different from Chen Yiyang's.
"Our Japan is the longest-lived country in the world; if we're going to seek anti-aging methods, we should look within our own Japanese laboratories. What's the point of looking in North America?"
But as soon as this old fellow spoke, it immediately drew disdain from the elderly.
"There's too much fraud in Japan. Previously, the news talked about a long-lived 111-year-old elder, Kato Sougen, recently found to have actually died thirty years ago. His children didn't report his death nor deal with his remains to continue collecting his pension."
Such circumstances make it hard to trust our country's research teams.
The remarks from these old fellows immediately silenced the old guy beside Chen Yiyang.
After all, the implications of this incident are far-reaching.
After the revelation of Kato Sougen's situation, various counties and cities in Japan immediately began checking the registration of local long-lived individuals.
Surprisingly, they found there's a registered 200-year-old man in Iki City, Nagasaki Prefecture.
A living Meiji soldier, no way.
Later, they discovered it was another case of family fraud for the pension.
In Yokohama City, there were over two thousand registered elders over 120 years old, all in missing status.
Which means, they probably died long ago, but they are still alive on the registry.
With such large-scale fraud in place, Japan isn't the longest-lived country that the old fellow claimed.
Actually, Japan's average life expectancy is 84.5 years, ranked second in the world. The first is Monaco, with an average life expectancy of 85.9 years.
Of course, apart from fraudulent data, Japan's real average life expectancy is only heaven knows.
The day after the dinner, Chen Yiyang bid farewell to Moy Hua's president, saying he's flying back home in the afternoon.
"You're heading back so soon?" Moy Hua's president was eager to persuade Chen Yiyang to stay in Japan.
"After all, I have a lot to deal with back home," Chen Yiyang had to find an excuse.
Since his trip to Japan was just a fleeting indulgence, if he stayed longer, he might soon lose interest in Moy Hua's president.
"But many of your country's wealthy enjoy living in Japan long-term," Moy Hua said to Chen Yiyang lingeringly, "Why don't you stay."
That's because I haven't done anything to feel guilty about.
Chen Yiyang certainly knew many Huaxia tycoons enjoy living in Japan long-term.
For these tycoons, living in Japan has endless benefits and no harm.
For starters, in Japan, there's a real physical separation between the rich and ordinary people.
It's not like North America's or Europe's community-type separation, but an entire class separation.
As Japan allows direct land purchase to build one's residence, Japanese wealthy particularly enjoy buying large plots of land to build luxury homes.
Though this can be done in North America and Europe too, their security doesn't compare to Japan. Even in affluent communities, there's still a risk of burglaries.
In Japan, such risks are significantly lower.
Moreover, being an Asian country, Huaxia people in Japan don't stand out unless showing unusual habits, making it difficult for locals to distinguish.
In Japan, there are numerous members-only restaurants and leisure venues targeting the wealthy.
If you're not wealthy, you don't even have the qualification to enter.
Thanks to the overall disconnected and unfamiliar atmosphere in Japanese society, living in Japan doesn't require building good relations with neighbors or the community like in Europe or North America.
You live by yourself, and others don't bother you.
Additionally, Japan is geographically closer to Huaxia.
Though some wealthy people come to Japan for reasons such as having a guilty conscience, they haven't been punished in the open, so returning home is still quick.
So if their domestic business encounters trouble or political winds change, they can fly back in a few hours rather than miss the crucial events due to travel time.
Chen Yiyang didn't have such concerns, so he saw no reason to purchase a home to stay in Japan long-term.
Though it's not convenient to explain this in detail to Moy Hua's president.
Instead, he hugged Moy Hua's president one more time, leaving them sound asleep.
Only then did he dress and head to the airport.
Upon returning to Lin'an, Chen Yiyang worried his accountant would sense something off if he went directly home, so he went to the office first to check if any work needed attention.
"These are companies and projects wishing for our investment recently."
The assistant handed Chen Yiyang a stack of documents.
As Chen Yiyang's trip to Japan wasn't long, there weren't any significant tasks, just some minor ones.
"Li Tiaotiao software? Why does this software sound familiar?" Chen Yiyang examined the documents and found a software company seeking his investment.
"Li Tiaotiao software is an app that helps mobile users skip startup ads and pop-up ads on various apps.
This software is free and always available without charge. But recently, the software company was sued by Tengxu for alleged unfair competition, asking for the software to be taken down."
