Ivanov figured out how to solve the problem with sex.
He now knows for sure that he is under the control of ill-wishers and is a target for predators who prey on the fortunes of the oligarchs.
But if there are girls who are ready to become perfect actresses for the sake of money and sleep with the right person, why not take advantage of this? He would have taken a mistress anyway, because a man needs relaxation to maintain his male health. But this process needs to be taken under full control.
Vanya created a department for "mistresses" in his security service. They hired several former police officers who had worked as operatives for a long time, and a good information security specialist, but in fact a hacker.
The newly formed department began developing famous sex agents from 'modeling agencies'. They used the same methods: surveillance, wiretapping, computer hacking.
As a result of the development, they managed to dig up tons of compromising material on sex agents. One of them, a former model, was firmly taken by the gills. On the one hand, there is a hook with compromising material, the disclosure of which leads to serious imprisonment. On the other hand, the same job with a high salary. The sex agent had no choice but to change her employer.
The only task of the "mistresses" department is to provide the employer with girls and their full control. The department worked according to the precepts of sex agencies. In other words, cooperation was organized with several modeling agencies, from where girls who fit the type of the boss were recruited. Then their voluntary "training" began. The "predator" was ready to do anything in an effort to get a rich husband-lover. As a result, the actress was ready to portray the perfect girl for a certain person. Her acting game won't be long: a year, two, five, in general, until she gets bored. But it will be paid in full, as with any mistress of an oligarch. If she's not completely stupid, she'll provide for herself for the rest of her life. If she's stupid and spends all the allocated funding on useless expensive clothes, that's her problem.
In the end, everyone is happy. Ivan gets the perfect girl who is ready to go out of her way to stay that way for him. He is absolutely sure that he has a mistress on the hook, and not someone hostile towards him. Several people have stable, high-paying jobs spying on the boss's mistress, controlling her, and training new girls. The "predator" believes that she herself has achieved the "love" of the oligarch, which she is sincerely glad of.
Having organized his personal life, Ivanov continued to gradually drain bitcoins. With the proceeds, he slowly bought up ordinary shares of the AstraMedica company, setting himself the goal of actually becoming one of its main owners with the right to a decisive vote. In order not to bring down the share price of the pharmaceutical company and not to attract attention to himself, he decided to stretch this process for many years. Haste in this matter will not lead to anything good.
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In the 1930s, thanks to advances in personalized medicine, 3D printing, and genetic therapy, the first results appeared. It has become possible to extend a person's life span to one hundred and twenty years. But Ivanov was in no hurry to take advantage of the still raw results.
AstraMedica has built a clinic in Sweden that provides its clients with the opportunity to prolong their lives. Transplantation of worn-out internal organs onto artificially grown ones from patient tissue samples, genetic therapy. So far, the clinic's services have been incredibly expensive, and the list of clients has been limited. More emphasis in this clinic was placed on testing life extension technologies.
At first, as expected, all the tests were conducted on animals. Only after receiving positive results and obtaining permits did experiments on human volunteers begin.
It was not mentioned anywhere, but Ivanov, as one of the top pharmaceutical companies, knew that Russia had acquired part of Astramedic's licenses. In the Moscow region, a closed government clinic was equipped using Swedish technology.
The president of the country was replaced for one term. The old president disappeared from the political scene for a while. Nothing has been heard from him. But Ivan knew that he and some other senior members of the country's government were going through a life extension procedure.
Japanese doctors went their own way. They have been developing ideal diets that include genetically modified or nanoscale modified by-products. According to their statements, such diets can prolong life due to better digestibility of foods, a balance of chemical elements, proteins, fats and amino acids, as well as by reducing the risks of developing many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Food, as such, has changed dramatically towards efficiency for human functioning and safety for nature.
But this is still just a meal for the rich. Mass production does not shine with quality. This situation was slightly corrected by the World Health Organization's ban on the use of palm oil in the food industry. This caused serious damage in the third world countries, where the supply of this poison accounted for a decent part of the budget revenue. Prices on grocery store shelves have crept up. But the ban had a positive effect on the health of the world's population, especially in not very rich countries, where most of the stalls were filled with products using palm oil.
But another scourge has flooded store shelves - products based on insect flour. Cheap protein flour from slugs began to be used in the production of sausages, sausages and sausages, various semi-finished meat products from dumplings and cutlets to other products. Walking through the store, it is almost impossible to find a semi-finished meat product without using protein flour in its composition.
This dominance of this product has caused a rapid increase in prices for meat products. Previously, ordinary people could at least afford inexpensive chicken, but now even chicken meat is expensive.
Slug farms sprang up all over the world like mushrooms after the rain.
Vanya used to avoid semi-finished products like fire, and even more so now. He switched to expensive Japanese diets, which he supplemented with dishes made from natural and proven farm products. Still, he's not old enough to eat everything, digest a horseshoe, and not even hiccup the next day. At fifty, you have to think about what you eat and drink, especially if you can afford it.
It is clear that a poor man is not up to fat. He will eat what he has enough money for, even if it is products made from protein flour, which causes an allergic reaction in many people. Well, like many people... According to statistics, one percent of the population cannot tolerate such products. If you look at the percentages, that's just one person out of a hundred. But if you take all ten billion inhabitants of the Earth, that's a hundred million people - the population of an entire country.
Another factor that caused the prices of natural meat to rise was the appearance of cheap artificial meat on the shelves. Logically, this is nonsense. Indeed, with the advent of competition, on the contrary, prices should fall. But no, natural meat was getting more expensive. This is because many farmers, unable to compete with an inexpensive artificial product, abandoned animal husbandry and switched to other areas of agriculture. Animal meat has become a product of the rich.
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A few years later, the old president returned to the political arena, who won the election with a crushing margin of votes. He looked as fit and healthy as he had ten years ago.
The Ivanov twins graduated from university. Ira plunged headlong into business, creating a chain of hotels and restaurants with her father's investments. Lena continued her postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Anthropology.
His ex-wife Natasha traveled the world and squandered money, living in a big way. She changed young lovers like gloves. In general, Ivan didn't give a damn about her, but his security service was watching his ex-wife to avoid possible problems on her part.
At some point in his life, an older, fatter, and bloated stepsister appeared for a moment. She blackmailed her brother to demand financial support, but was sent far and for a long time, and the guards were ordered not to let this person near the body of the boss.
Olga tried to scream on the Internet to attract attention to herself. She has appeared on popular talk shows on television a couple of times. She was outraged by how ungrateful her brother was, saying that he had risen so much because he had taken her house away from her. But soon Ivan shut her up, suing her for defamation. After going through the courts, she regretted her rash decision. Expensive lawyers squeezed all the juices out of her and drove her into debt.
Ivan became so hardened that he reacted harshly and sometimes cruelly to any attempts on his own well-being, without feeling remorse.
That's who made Olga demand something from him and tarnish his reputation? Nobody. She decided to ruin her own life. If she had tried to establish a peaceful dialogue, build family bridges, and not demand something ultimatumistically, then Ivan would have met her halfway, despite the fact that they were not related by blood.
By the age of thirty-five, he managed to sell off most of the bitcoins and buy out more than half of the pharmaceutical company.
In addition, he invested heavily in the production of rechargeable batteries, as well as in companies related to virtual reality and energy.
By this point, his fortune had exceeded ninety billion dollars, and he was at the top of the Forbes list.
All this time, he continued to host a channel about cars as a hobby. He has accumulated thirty million subscribers. The channel generated income that more than covered all expenses for the team of the director-organizer, cameraman, sound engineer and editor, as well as for the purchase of cars and other expenses for projects.
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The thirty-fifth year was a severe blow to gasoline technology. Europe and the United States have legally banned the sale of cars with internal combustion engines (ICE). All major automotive concerns have completely switched to the production of electric cars. Only in China and Russia continued to produce cars with internal combustion engines.
Like any innovation, the development of electric transport in Russia has been slow. The network of charging stations expanded rather slowly. And although more than half of cars with electric motors are in car dealerships, residents of the hinterland still prefer the good old internal combustion engines. The villagers simply have no place to charge their electric carts, and oil has seriously fallen in price along with Western prohibitions. Gasoline has become very cheap, and this is despite exorbitant taxes and excise taxes.
Only in large cities there are no problems with charging. Moscow and St. Petersburg have almost completely switched to electric transport. In the capital, it was soon planned to introduce a ban on vehicles with internal combustion engines entering the city. And what starts in Moscow usually spreads to the whole country after a while.
Ivan took the opportunity to buy interesting cars with gasoline engines. To store them, he had to build a multi-level heated underground parking for a couple hundred cars. An above-ground structure is cheaper, but it would spoil the view of the site.
By this time, the Badgers were almost empty. Ivanov bought out most of the houses in the village and seriously expanded the territory of his estate.
The village was left with old people who miraculously survived to retirement, several successful farmers, including the Ledge family and Mikhail's family.
After receiving money for bitcoins, Misha rebuilt a large house for himself, bought three plots on which he built houses for his children. He successfully invested most of the proceeds at Ivan's suggestion. Since cheese in butter has been riding on dividends, which are not very large, but there is enough for a comfortable life. He started his own channel on Tutuba, which brings him a small additional income. Sometimes he comes to visit Vanya and flashes in his videos.
Ivan was kind of jealous of him. His wife had no intention of cheating on him. The children didn't need to be given a preventive kick, they were already striving to achieve something themselves. They didn't join the majors in dubious companies.
Vanya believed that Misha, though poorer, was a little happier. Maybe he was wrong, maybe he wasn't. People tend to exaggerate other people's happiness and downplay their own. If he had asked Misha which of them was happier, he would have definitely pointed the finger at Vanya, giving many arguments: a lot of money, dozens of cars, a huge estate, young mistresses... And it seems really cool, but for some reason Ivanov did not feel as satisfied with life as in his previous life, when sometimes he could barely make ends meet and turned like a squirrel in a wheel, but he lived surrounded by his wife, children and grandchildren.
By the end of the two thousand thirty-fifth year, the hyped demand for bitcoins raised the exchange rate for them above one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Vanya began to get rid of the bitcoins, selling many pools every day. Against the background of demand, his injections did not allow the market to collapse.
In January and December of the following year, the bitcoin exchange rate continued to rise. In three months, Ivan got rid of the entire cryptocurrency. Almost. He still left ten thousand in his wallet. In total, he managed to raise about fifty billion dollars. He invested all his funds in the same business areas that he considered promising.
It became more and more difficult for him to mess with cars. At first, he began posting videos on Youtube less often, and by the summer he had completely cooled down to a blogger's career, finally abandoning it.
Since the summer, Ivanov began traveling the world. For once, he turned from a stay-at-home mom into a traveler.
Young people often rush to see the world by visiting as many countries as possible. Vanya did not set such goals for himself. His travels were typically old-age, adjusted for the situation. He was accompanied on trips by a young mistress.
For example, he went to Spain, where a house had been waiting for him for a long time. I lived there for half a year, and when I got bored, I went to the UK. So he traveled around the world: a month there, six months here, three or four months in another country. In such a leisurely way, you have time to get acquainted with the culture of the host country, explore many attractions, learn a little local language or practice English when it comes to Asian countries.
Countries, mistresses, villas, cars changed, and life ran like an express train.
Elena Ivanova married a physicist who ran a popular science channel on Youtube with a fairly large audience. Lena not only successfully defended her scientific work, but also began work on her doctoral thesis. She constantly traveled to excavations all over the world.
The biggest problem for archaeologists and anthropologists is financing. Ivanova, coincidentally, didn't have any problems with that. She has been receiving substantial charitable grants from an "unknown well-wisher" all the time. Lena managed to become a mother twice, giving Ivan two granddaughters.
Ivanova Irina's chain of restaurants and hotels spread all over the world and by the fortieth year was estimated at three hundred million dollars. She has already been married and divorced twice. From her second marriage, she had a son, whom she raised alone.
In the twenty-first century, the world is changing before our eyes. You don't have time to get used to push-button phones before smartphones appear. As soon as you get used to smartphones with a touchscreen, they are replaced by miniature devices with a holographic projector. You think you've figured out the operating system of holophones, how they're being replaced by augmented reality devices with contact lenses or glasses and neural transmitters that attach to temples. And for the particularly risky and well-off, a neural interface can be implanted in the brain, which has managed to improve significantly over the years since it first entered the market.
Virtual reality was striding across the planet. Virtual capsules became cheaper and more advanced. They have become available to a wider range of customers. Online virtual games appeared. Many workers, whose presence was not required at the workplace, moved to home-based remote work via a computer or virtual capsule.
The robotics market was pleased with the extensive offer. Sex androids from China were especially popular with single people.
At the age of sixty, Ivan felt unwell, that is, for all his considerable age. And this is despite the fact that he did not smoke, hardly drank alcohol and ate mostly healthy and healthy food.
Over the past decade, the technology of growing and transplanting internal organs has stepped forward and been perfected to the ideal. New medicines have appeared that accelerate tissue regeneration. The latest gene therapy techniques have been tested.
Ivan decided on a life extension procedure by contacting his Swedish clinic. Because of this, he had to give up his usual entertainment and lovemaking for a couple of years. But after many surgeries, including plastic ones, he felt forty-five years old and looked forty, which is very good for a sixty-year-old elderly man.
Some kind of unhealthy wave has begun in Russia. There was another division of power in the political arena. It affected the financial elite, which is why Ivanov was in no hurry to return to his homeland. He stayed in Sweden, where he was granted citizenship without much delay.
In general, the nordic countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are not in a hurry to give away their citizenship. But they make an exception for well-off people. While dark-skinned and dark-skinned migrants from Africa have flooded Western Europe, in Norwegian countries they are hard to find during the day. The number of fair-skinned blonds was off the charts on the streets of cities.
Ivan was satisfied with everything in Sweden, with the exception of a complete ban on gasoline engines and a large number of representatives of non-traditional sexual orientation. And you don't really break the rules of the road here. If the sign says the limit is sixty kilometers per hour, then it is better not to exceed it. At first, the negligent driver is expected to face draconian fines, which do not have a fixed value, but are calculated based on a person's income. So Ivan may receive a fine for a violation above the cost of an expensive sports car. But even this seems to be not enough, the Swedes cancel their driver's license for repeated violations. So even the avid reckless drivers drive by the rules here.
Besides, there are a lot of cars with autopilot on the roads here. Ivan could only say one thing about them - they were boring. Not even like that - they're damn boring!
Is that the thrill of driving in your car if it is controlled by a computer with jewel-like precision and maximum security? You just sit and drive from point 'A' to point 'B', as if by taxi. And the point of owning a car like this? It's just an extra expense. It's easier to order a VIP taxi.
That's what many Swedes did. Recently, they have often begun to abandon private transport in favor of taxis with autopilot.
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After a couple of years, when the situation in Russia stabilized and the oligarchs stopped shaking, Ivan happily returned to his homeland in Badgers. Then he was horrified to learn of Mikhail's death.
No one bothered to tell him about the death of his best friend. But it was possible to save him, adding several decades of life, if he was sent to his clinic for treatment. This news plunged the man into depression. Mikhail was his only best friend in this life. Yes, he was eleven years older than him, but until the last he looked like a cheerful old man and did not complain about his health, although it certainly caused problems.
The village is almost completely deserted. The farmers went broke and left. Pensioners who went to the other world, who moved to relatives in the city. Misha's children and his widow sold their cottages and moved to the city.
The manager of Vanya's estate, fulfilling his instructions, bought up all the real estate in Badgers. As a result, Ivanov became the sole owner of the village. All the real estate now belonged to him alone. Sixty hectares of private property, not counting the village streets, which in fact belong to the state, but the whole village was brazenly fenced off with fences and barriers with checkpoints.
Ivanov hired a construction company to improve the Badgers. The entire village has been transformed into a luxurious wooded recreation area interspersed with various buildings. Lighting is everywhere, perfectly smooth roads that form a racing track, tranquility, fresh air and silence. A pier was built on the riverbank, near which a sauna floated on the water, since by law it is impossible to build closer than fifty meters from the shore, and no one forbade floating buildings.
Vanya ironically called himself the last badger. He did not take into account the servants and guards. Some today, others tomorrow. They are not residents of Badgers, but only temporary hired workers. I didn't count my mistress either, for the same reason. He's had so many of them, with carbon-copy looks, that he's stopped remembering their names. If you need to address another girl, he used common nicknames: bunny, sunny, sweetheart...
The thrill of owning a personal village can be understood by getting behind the wheel of a car. An old, gasoline-powered, smoking and growling monster, on which you can accelerate up to two hundred kilometers along a flat and free road leading from the village to the highway. You can race on the race track of your vast estate without fear of other drivers, fines and traffic police officers.
Cars still brought Ivan indescribable pleasure. He didn't trust anyone to repair them, he serviced his babies himself, even when it came to high-status sports cars. The experience and equipment allowed them to be disassembled and reassembled, and there was no time limit.
He didn't understand modern electric cars, especially with autopilot. They didn't give the owner the main thing - a buzz! Of course, there have been sports cars with an imitation of the sound of a gasoline engine, but it's like sex with a rubber band: there is movement, but there is no progress. The sound isn't real there, it's coming from the speakers. It's like the feigned moan of a girl of low social responsibility who doesn't try at all.
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In the forty-ninth year, the AstraMedica Corporation clinic began testing the latest gene therapy on human volunteers. In parallel, research was underway on the implantation of nanorobots that would accelerate regeneration, destroy cancer cells and generally maintain the body in perfect condition. The realization of humanity's dream of eternal youth was closer than ever. The corporation allocated huge resources for this. Many scientists and doctors have struggled with this task.
Ivanov was deeply interested in the results of research and testing. He kept track of all the available information, and as the main owner of the company, he had access to all the data.
In 2004, the first group of volunteers left the clinic, having gone through the entire range of procedures from gene therapy and rejuvenation to implantation of autonomous nanorobots. They felt great. Old people of different ages got into the clinic, and young people left it at the age of twenty-five.
There were only a few steps left before success, which threatened to take years. To allow new treatment procedures, government agencies were required to undergo two more extended tests, each of which should affect an increasing test group of patients each time. Among other things, changes in laws affecting the status of citizens who have undergone rejuvenation should be promoted. This includes changing the retirement age status, replacing documents, and many more minor nuances.
Ivan knew from the reports that the complex of procedures was as safe as it could be. Therefore, he boldly enrolled in an expanded group of subjects who, over the next five years, will have to go through a full range of rejuvenation with the introduction of nanorobots.
Of course, it is possible to wait until the clinic is allowed to rejuvenate patients at the legislative level, the previous operation allowed him to live to be a hundred years old or more, but this is as luck would have it. But every extra day of being an old man is excruciatingly painful when you know that you can become younger and find eternal youth here and now. Few people in Ivanov's place would have resisted the temptation.
The whole complex of long-term therapy, designed for five years, cannot be called pleasant and simple. But for the sake of the result, you can be patient.
On the first of March, two thousand fifty-ninth, Ivan could safely call his second birthday. Finally, the cycle of torment ended. After the final examination of a whole staff of doctors, many examinations and tests, a young and perfectly healthy Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov left the clinic. The way he was at the age of twenty-five. A handsome guy of medium height and athletic build, he shone with snow-white regrown teeth. For the first time in his life, he looked at the world without glasses and at the same time saw everything more clearly than in the ideal diopters for him. The world seemed incredibly beautiful. The spring sun caressed his face with bright rays. Gusts of frosty wind ruffled his blond hair.
Laws haven't been passed yet, licenses haven't been obtained, but everything is about to happen. Soon, the news will spread all over the world about what seemed impossible - eternal youth is possible! And the pharmaceutical corporation AstraMedica is ready to give it to everyone.
Vanya knew the prices for the procedures when the clinic would start accepting the first patients - they numbered in the millions and ended at one and a half billion dollars for a full complex. But he didn't care. He has already enrolled his daughters, their husbands and all adult grandchildren in the full complex. They will be held for free, that is, at the expense of the corporation, as the last test group. It's a small matter to get them to Sweden before the clinic receives an influx of rich people from all over the world.
It will be easier for the grandchildren. They won't have to go through a long and complicated rejuvenation procedure. After just six months of gene therapy and implantation of nanorobots, they will receive eternal youth and excellent health. It will be more difficult for Irina and Lena with her husband. It just so happens that the older a person is, the longer the rejuvenation course lasts. They are already under forty, therefore, the treatment will be delayed for a year.
And let Natasha go to the dicks! On the very cocks that this old woman still loves to ride! And even if his daughters insisted, Vanya was too offended by his ex-wife to make her immortal. However... He will not refuse if she wishes to receive clinic services on a general basis at her own expense. But her condition is not enough for a full complex, only for rejuvenation. He will be happy to look at her face when she realizes that her daughters and ex-husband have received eternal youth, and she was only able to bargain for a reprieve from death lasting forty to sixty years...