Schiller was called back by the principal. Even if he could remotely control it, other people still needed to manage the various affairs of the mental hospital. This task fell to Bruce.
Schiller was very relieved and left all the work directly to Bruce. Bruce always felt that the professor had more confidence in him than he did in himself.
He is just a freshman and is about to take over an atypical mental hospital in his first internship. Although there is no real mental patient in this mental hospital, he has to manage it, but it is more dangerous and dangerous than the mental patient.
trouble.
When Bruce questioned his ability to do the job, Schiller told him: "Sometimes, you don't know you are a genius until you push yourself."
On the first day of work, Bruce encountered a big problem. He couldn't tell who was who here.
Although he has memorized all the patient files as thick as a book and memorized all their names, room numbers and corresponding medical records, if this was in an ordinary hospital, an intern could do this.
It's completely enough.
But unfortunately, there is no mental patient in the traditional sense here. Behind their names and diagnosis certificates are extremely complex social identities.
Who is a member of which gang? Which gang has a bad relationship with which gang? Who was an enemy of whom? Who was a partner with whom? This information cannot be seen from the cases.
Bruce probably heard some things when he listened to Schiller talking on the phone in the past. His memory, which is far beyond ordinary people, turned this information into his newbie gift package. It didn't matter if he couldn't figure out everyone's social identity. He could learn from these.
Some clues are reversed.
In addition, Bruce is very good at disguising, just like how he disguised his identity as a playboy. In this hospital, he became a rich man with a bold personality, pampered and well-off, but full of yearning for gangster life.
The status of the world's richest man has provided him with a lot of benefits. Generally, no gang member thinks that the world's richest man will deliberately try to trick him. Therefore, when Bruce shows interest in the gang's story, the gang bosses just think that this
The young rich man, like the son-in-law of the rich, has lived a comfortable life for too long and yearns for the exciting life in gangster movies.
Therefore, although they added a lot of their own fiction when telling stories, Bruce was still able to infer real and useful information about gang social relations from these stories.
In a city where almost everyone has something to do with gangs, if you understand the complicated gang relationships, you can almost understand all the connections at the bottom of the city.
Bruce discovered that the city's rules of survival were much more complicated than he imagined.
Starting from the small gangs at the bottom, even if it is a small gang with only a dozen people, they have their own rules of survival.
These small gangs are often responsible for patrolling the streets and doing petty theft. They also have to pay protection fees to the larger gangs for their driving.
As for the larger gangs, there can be hundreds of gangs. These gangs are the mainstream of Gotham. Most of them own one or two industries, which may be shops or factories.
They provide protection for these industries, expel troublemakers, and use small gangs under their control to attract customers. When conflicts arise over competing for customers, they will also have small-scale fights, but they basically hide in their cars.
Two shots were fired from a pistol in the back, and large-scale firepower was rarely used.
Further up, there are big gangs with hundreds of people. These gangs have reached another level. Each of them has at least one special industry that they rely on for survival. Bruce discovered that these damn gangs are still...
Industry segmentation has been achieved.
When they reach the size of several hundred people, they often control at least one smuggling chain or have a complete industrial chain of planting, refining and sales, or control most of the industries in a red light district. Some of the best among them are even in a certain industry.
A monopoly has been achieved in a certain industry in a region.
At this level, the profits they can make every day have reached an astonishing level, and they have also reached saturation.
The higher up, they can no longer be called gangsters, but should be called family criminal groups. The twelve gangster families that rule Gotham, except for the core force in the hands of their speakers, actually do not have any
For business that requires personal attention, what they have to do is to control these big gangsters remotely. Each gangster family has dozens or hundreds of big gangsters who are in charge of different businesses in different areas.
When Falcone established the twelve families, he gave them twelve different industries to focus on.
Falcone is at the top of the pyramid, giving orders to all families and gangs.
During the collection and analysis of this information, Bruce discovered that Gotham's seemingly chaotic rules are actually a very solid pyramid. Wealth is extracted from the criminal industry layer by layer, and then from the top to the top.
for redistribution and production.
In this cycle, Gotham has developed its own unique ecosystem, creating the largest criminal industry gathering place in the United States.
At the same time, Bruce discovered that, unlike what he had imagined, from a sociological and economic perspective, the city's industrial structure was actually pretty healthy, whether it was the distribution of industrial volumes at each level or the so-called division of industrial clusters.
, actually doing better than most cities in the United States.
As the investigation progressed further, Bruce began to doubt his original intentions bit by bit, because he discovered that although Gotham is evil, it is not actually poor, and the people's living standards are not low. In addition to being very dangerous, the people here are also very dangerous.
Quite rich.
During his travels in the United States, Bruce also studied the living standards of people in major American cities. He found that the living standards of the vast majority of people in Gotham, a damn city, were far beyond the passing line.
During his visit to the hospital, Bruce met an old man from Fortress, whom people called "Rifle."
Rifle was originally a man who wanted to storm the city, but his daughter married a small gang leader in Gotham. This small leader was maliciously framed, and his daughter almost suffered misfortune. He received a call from his daughter asking for help.
Rifle, he just carried an old-fashioned rifle and rushed to Gotham. With a few shots, he killed the gang members who wanted to frame his son-in-law.
The Lauren family, one of the twelve families, took a fancy to this old man's bad temper and his good skills. Now he is the owner of a restaurant in the West District of the Lauren family.
Unlike other gang members, this old man really came to the hospital. He had long-term headaches, which seemed to be complications of anxiety, so his son-in-law found a relationship and sent him in for treatment. After two courses of treatment,
It's much better.
"It's the same everywhere, it's the same everywhere..."
Rifle smoked a cigar, leaned on the hospital bed, and said to Bruce: "How do you think it will be better if you rush into the city? Everyone lives on clean streets, every family has a car to drive, and the children
Wearing uniforms to go to school?"
He took another drag on his cigarette. The old man even looked like a Southern aristocrat, like a real rifle.
Along with the smoke, he slowly recalled: "When I met Mary, you know, it was decades ago... At that time, I was a poor boy, and I was wandering around the city with my bare hands..."
"There are gangs in the metropolis, but where are they? I work for them, but it's not as good as Gotham. I earn too little. Sometimes I don't even have a penny in my pocket. I want to marry Mary, but I don't have the money.
How are we going to get married?"
"So, I took a gun and started a killer business, which made my life a little better. When my daughter was born, I was already doing a good job. Although I didn't read any books, I had to read them.
Gotham is so much better."
Bruce said: "Gotham is better than the city?"
If it hadn't been for an old man who looked quite knowledgeable, Bruce would have thought he was out of his mind.
"I know, you guys with serious status think this city is terrible, there are gangs everywhere, and everyone is a criminal, but for people like us, no matter who we work for, we have to work hard.
We will follow whoever has more money."
"In Gotham, as long as you are a formal member of a gang, you can actually make a lot of money. But if someone like me owns a restaurant or a bar, it is no different from doing big business."
"And here, gang members are actually safer. There is a set of order here. If you don't want to declare war on a gang, it's best not to touch his people, even if it's just a gangster at the bottom."
"So, those who join gangs to support their families are actually safer than other places, because the gangs here have the final say. Once you become a member of the gang, your words will naturally be easier to use."
"I know, I know..." Rifle put down his cigarette and said: "I know very well that being a killer will lead to retribution. I will go to hell, and there will be the judgment of Satan waiting for me, but I don't care, you know
why?"
Before Bruce could answer, Rifle said: "I have to fill my stomach first, make more money, and live a better life."
"God didn't let me be born into a family as poor as yours. My father lost everything in gambling, my mother ran away with someone else, and my only property is an old gun that doesn't work very well. Then I think,
I just did it, so what can I do?"
"After I came to Gotham, I discovered that the person who built this city must be a genius. Don't you think these gangs were planned too well? It even achieved a perfect balance, allowing the city to
It keeps running for a long time, and people live well."
"What's the name of the one under my son-in-law's hand?...Forget it, we all call him "One Hand". His left hand was chopped off when he was a child by his father who took drugs and lost his brain. But he
I have been working with the casino owner on their street since I was a child, specializing in throwing dice. I even bought a car last year and will get married next month."
"The gang industry is huge and they are in short supply of people. As long as they have the hands and feet to do the job, they will accept anyone."
"Children can learn a craft by joining gangs instead of going to school. Those with some brains can work in a restaurant and learn how to cook from the boss, or go to a bar and learn bartending. The most powerful ones are those who can learn skills in casinos.
, those are all born clever people."
"If you are agile, you can become a pickpocket. If you have good eyes, you can keep an eye on the wind. At the worst, you can also learn some fighting skills from others. There are so many gangs, restaurants, bars, casinos, car repair shops, or
If you need employees or security guards, you can make a living anywhere."
"Let me see, the economy has gotten better in the past two years. If I save more money, I can even buy a small independent house on the edge of the wealthy area in the south. Oh, you should live in the center of it, after all.
They say you are a rich man."
"My grandson is not as lucky as you, but it is enough. He is still much better than me. At least he was born in a house that does not leak. His mother takes good care of him, and his father is outside.
Making money makes us live pretty well, right?"
Perhaps it was because his headache had improved a lot. While the old man seemed very energetic and kept talking about some details of his life, Bruce's thoughts were far away.
Rifle's words got him thinking.
Gotham's criminal industry is so perfectly planned that it is almost impossible to form it naturally. Gangs are born from chaos, and it is impossible for everyone to organize these industries spontaneously.
So how did this city become the weird place it is today?
Is it possible that someone really designed it like this on purpose?
So what is his purpose? He has the ability to plan the industrial chain so perfectly, so why does he have to make this place a crime capital? Can't he do something else?
Gotham is simply the biggest wonder of all cities in the United States. It has been running smoothly for such a long time in a weird and twisted posture, and has become one of the most prosperous cities on the East Coast.
An extremely outrageous method has made it to the forefront of urban GDP in the United States. People's living standards are not only passing, but also reaching excellence.
Its creator must be a genius. He wrote order out of disorder and created a new urban operating model almost out of thin air.
But at the same time, he must also be a madman who used his crazy creativity to create the world's largest city of crime.
Bruce thought, maybe here, there is only a thin line between genius and madness. Gotham is like a coin standing between them. It seems as if it will fall at any time, but to this day, it is still swinging on this line.
superior.
Everyone here, like this city, has two sides to him, a genius with special talents and an unparalleled lunatic.
Geniuses are on the left, madmen are on the right, and everyone in Gotham follows the same traffic rules here——
I go straight and never turn.
This chapter has been completed!