NOVPUBChapter 812: Chapter 552: Arrival of the Half-Step Grandmaster Chapter 812 -552: Arrival of the Half-Step Grandmaster By mid-June, the Longevity Club was operating smoothly, and with the word-of-mouth from the dozens of wealthy individuals who had previously experienced it, the miraculous effects of the first Longevity Pill were also known to many top tycoons, including Mina Gong, the Jewelry Princess, who personally asked Chu Mo for a pill.
Of course, Mina Gong was only thirty-four this year, in the prime of her youth.
Given her physical condition, there was no need for her to carry the first Longevity Pill personally.
Naturally, this pill was not for her use, but was instead given as a birthday gift to the Queen of Britain.
Besides Princess Mina, Chu Mo also gave away two more pills, one to Grandfather Lu and another to Cao Renyi of Xingyue Technology.
Both men had been extremely helpful to Chu Mo in the early stages, and he naturally kept their kindness in mind.
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Considering their advanced ages, having a Longevity Pill on hand ensured their needs were met in case of emergencies.
It was just a small gesture from Chu Mo.
Of course, it was not just these few people who asked Chu Mo for the first Longevity Pill.
Those top tycoons who had witnessed its miraculous effects all wanted a pill for emergencies.
However, Chu Mo鈥檚 place was not a shrine; he couldn鈥檛 possibly satisfy everyone鈥檚 wishes unconditionally.
If he really did so, all his efforts would likely be in vain.
Therefore, to obtain a Longevity Pill, the most basic requirement was becoming an official member of the Longevity Club.
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After becoming a member, each person had to pay an annual fee of fifty million and also comply with various regulations of the club, such as attending events organized by the club regularly, and only then could they receive the services of the Longevity Club.
An annual fee of fifty million was definitely exorbitant; even the top clubs in Britain or the U.S.
with histories spanning over a hundred years didn鈥檛 charge such high fees.
This fee alone could bankrupt ordinary millionaires, and even billionaires worth tens of billions might feel the pinch.
But even for those billionaires worth tens or hundreds of billions, coming up with fifty million wasn鈥檛 easy, and this place wasn鈥檛 somewhere they could just enter at their whim.
In fact, the Longevity Club didn鈥檛 care about the membership fee that much.
It鈥檚 worth noting that even if a hundred top tycoons joined, the club would only collect five billion in fees annually, which was just a drop in the bucket for the cash-burning Longevity Club, and wouldn鈥檛 even last a week.
In just one year, the total investment in the Longevity Club had already surpassed three hundred billion, consuming nearly ten billion every day.
Chu Mo was the only person in the world who could afford such terrifying expenditure.
As for others, even if the eight major families united, they couldn鈥檛 bear such a cost.
Moreover, what was more important was that the Longevity Club would still need huge investments for a long time to come.
The first Longevity Pill was only a semi-finished product.
In the future, the research and development of the second, third, and even fourth Longevity Pills would also require astronomical sums of money.
A conservative estimate put the total investment at over a trillion.
Because they were aware of the frightening expenses of the Longevity Club, no one thought the annual fifty million membership fee was expensive.
Almost everyone was eager to pay this money and become a member of the Longevity Club.
A week later, the registered members of the Longevity Club had increased from just a few at the beginning to sixty-one now, and the club had collected three billion in fees.
This included not only the wealthy individuals from Hua Country but also other international tycoons, such as the Prince of Britain, Jewelry Queen Mina, Prince Ben Hesed of Dubai, the Saudi King, and the fourth-ranked billionaire in the world, Kenming Alum Brulee.
The Longevity Club was now buzzing, and the original six attendants could no longer meet the demand.
Following Chu Mo鈥檚 arrangements, the club had begun recruiting a batch of new attendants, and in order to attract quality staff, the club was also paying a great cost, including increasing the salary of each attendant, among other benefits.
Right now, every attendant at the Longevity Club had a base annual salary of five hundred thousand, not including bonuses and various allowances.
When added together, any attendant at the Longevity Club could have an annual salary of over a million.
The only thing that Chu Mo regretted was the message from the chief scientist of the Longevity Club, Frederick, saying his trip to Britain hadn鈥檛 gone well.
The chief scientist in the field of neuro-transmission had not agreed to come to Hua Country with him.
According to Frederick鈥檚 message, the health of this top British tycoon had been declining, and he was now relying on medication to sustain himself.
If he came to Hua Country, already plagued by illness, he probably wouldn鈥檛 be much help.
This was also why, despite Chu Mo鈥檚 previous offer of five billion, the other party was still reluctant to step foot in Hua Country.
It wasn鈥檛 that the other party did not desire to come, nor that the top tycoon was particularly noble, but simply that his physical condition did not permit it.
In such a case, there was no point in forcing the issue.
However, Frederick hadn鈥檛 returned immediately; he still had a trip to Romantic Country ahead, where there was another top tycoon.
Although this tycoon鈥檚 reputation wasn鈥檛 as renowned as the chief scientist from Britain, his expertise wasn鈥檛 much less.
