The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Schiller was called back by the principal. Even if he could remotely control the hospital, other people were actually needed to manage the affairs of the psychiatric hospital. This task fell to Bruce.

Schiller was very relieved and directly threw all the work to Bruce. Bruce always felt that the professor had more confidence in him than he had in himself.

He is just a freshman, and he is about to take over an atypical psychiatric hospital in his first internship. Although there is no real mental patient in this psychiatric hospital, he is more dangerous and dangerous than mental patients. trouble.

When Bruce questioned his suitability for the job, Schiller told him, "Sometimes you don't know you're 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 is in an ordinary hospital, an intern doctor can do this. It's totally enough.

But unfortunately, there is no traditional mental patient here. Behind their names and medical certificates are extremely complicated social identities.

Who is a member of which gang? Which gang has a bad relationship with which gang? Who and who used to be enemies? Who is the partner with whom? This information cannot be seen from the case.

When listening to Schiller on the phone in the past, Bruce probably heard some. His memory, which is far beyond ordinary people, turned this information into his newbie gift bag. Some clues are reversed.

In addition, Bruce is very good at disguising, just like his disguising his identity as a playboy. In this hospital, he became a rich man with a bold personality, pampered but full of yearning for gang life.

The status of the richest man in the world has provided him with a lot of benefits. Generally, no gang member would think that the richest man in the world would deliberately trick him. Therefore, when Bruce showed interest in the story of the gangster, the gangsters only felt that this The young rich man, just like the son of a rich man, has lived a comfortable life for a long time, longing for the exciting life in gangster movies.

Therefore, although they added a lot of their own fabrications when telling stories, Bruce was still able to infer real and useful information about gangster social relations from these stories.

In a city where almost everyone has ties to gangsters, if you figure out the complicated gang relationship, you can almost figure out all the underlying context of the city.

Bruce discovered that the city's survival rules were much more complicated than he had imagined.

Starting from the small gangs at the bottom, even a small gang with only a dozen people has its own rules of survival.

These small gangs often undertake the business of patrolling the streets and petty theft, and they also pay protection fees to the larger gangs for them to drive.

And bigger ones can have gangs with hundreds of people. These gangs are the mainstream of Gotham. Most of them have one or two properties in their hands, which may be shops or factories.

They provide protection for these industries, expel trouble-seekers, and remotely control small gangs to solicit customers. When some conflicts over customers arise, they will also have small-scale firefights, but they are basically hiding in the car. Two shots were fired with a pistol in the back, and few of them used large-scale firepower.

Further up, there are big gangsters with hundreds of people. These gangsters have reached another level. Each of them has at least one special industry to survive. Bruce discovered that these damned gangsters are still Achieved industry segmentation.

When they reach the scale of hundreds of people, they usually control at least one smuggling chain or have a complete industrial chain of planting, refining and sales, or control most of the industries in the red light district, and some of them are outstanding. 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 become saturated.

Those who go further up can no longer be called gangsters, but should be called family crime groups. The twelve gangster families that rule Gotham actually have no power except the core force in the hands of their bosses. For business that needs to be done personally, what they have to do is to remotely control these big gangsters. 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 used twelve different industries to give them their own priorities.

Falcone, on the other hand, sits at the top of the pyramid, issuing orders to all families and gangs.

During the collection and analysis of this information, Bruce discovered that Gotham's seemingly chaotic and disorderly rules are actually a fairly solid pyramid. Wealth is extracted layer by layer from the criminal industry, and then from the top for redistribution and production.

In such a cycle, Gotham has produced its own unique ecosystem, casting the largest criminal industry gathering place in the United States.

At the same time, Bruce discovered that, unlike what he had imagined, from the perspective of sociology and economics, the industrial structure of the city was actually damn healthy, whether it was the distribution of industrial volume at each level or the division of so-called industrial clusters , It is better than most cities in the United States.

As the investigation deepened, Bruce began to doubt his original intention a little bit, because he found that although Gotham is evil, it is not actually poor, and the living standards of the people are not low. Quite rich.

During his travels in the United States, Bruce also studied the living standards of people in major cities in the United States. He found that the living standards of the vast majority of people in this damn city of Gotham were much higher than the passing line.

During his visit to the hospital, Bruce met an old man from the city called "Rifle".

Rifle was supposed to be the one who was going to attack the city, but his daughter married to Gotham, a gang leader, who was framed maliciously, and his daughter almost suffered misfortune. Rifle, carrying an old-fashioned rifle directly, rushed to Gotham, and killed the gangsters who wanted to frame his son-in-law in a few shots.

The Lauren family, one of the twelve families, took a fancy to the old man's violent 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 a complication of anxiety, so his son-in-law found a relationship and sent him in for treatment. After two courses of treatment, It's been much better.

"Everything is the same, everywhere is the same..."

Rifle, smoking a cigar, leaned back on the hospital bed and said to Bruce, "Where do you think it would be any easier to go to town? Everyone lives on clean streets, every family has a car to drive, and the kids Do you all wear school uniforms to school?"

He took another drag on his cigarette, and the old man even had some southern aristocratic airs, like a real rifle.

Accompanied by the smoke, he slowly recalled: "When I met Mary, you know, decades ago... At that time, I was a poor boy, and I was walking around the city with my bare hands..."

"There are gangsters in the city, where are they not? I work for them, but it's not as good as Gotham. I earn so little. Sometimes I don't even have a penny in my pocket. I want to marry Mary, but I have no money. How do we get married?"

"So, I took a gun and started a killer business, which made my life a little bit better. When my daughter was born, I was already doing well. Although I haven't read any books, I can read them. Gotham is much better."

Bruce said, "Gotham is better than Rush City?"

If it weren't for an old man who seemed to be quite knowledgeable, Bruce would have thought he was out of his mind.

"I know, you guys with serious identities think this city is rotten, there are gangsters everywhere, and everyone is a criminal, but for people like us, working for anyone is the same. We will follow whoever has more money.”

"In Gotham, as long as you are an official member of a gang, you can actually make a lot of money, and like me, if you can own a restaurant or a bar, it is no different from doing big business."

"And here, the members of the gang are actually safer. Here has its own set of orders. 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 gangs have the final say here, and when you become a member of gangs, it is naturally easier to speak."

"I know, I know..." The rifle put down the smoke and said, "I know very well that there will be retribution for being a killer, I will go to hell, and there will be Satan's judgment waiting for me, but I don't care, you know why?"

Before Bruce could answer, Rifle said to himself, "I have to fill my stomach first, make more money, and live a better life."

"God didn't allow me to be born in a family like yours with nothing to worry about. My father gambled and lost everything. My mother ran away with someone else. The only property I have is an old gun that doesn't work. Then I thought, I just did it, so what?"

"After I came to Gotham, I realized that the person who built this city must be a genius. Don't you think these gangsters are planned too well? It even reached a perfect balance, so that this city can It’s been working for a long time, and people are doing just fine.”

"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 cut off by his father who took drugs and broke his brain when he was a child, but he I have been working with the casino owner on their street since I was a child, specializing in throwing dice, even bought a car last year, and will get married next month."

"The gang industry is huge, and they are short of people. As long as they have hands and feet to work, they will accept anyone."

"Children don't go to school, they can learn a craft by going to the gangsters. Those with a little brain, go to work in restaurants to learn cooking with the boss, or go to bars to learn bartending. The most powerful people are those who can learn skills in casinos. , those are born clever ghosts."

"If you are nimble, you can be a pickpocket. If you have good eyesight, you can watch the wind and watch. The worst thing is, you can learn how to fight with other people. There are so many gangsters, restaurants, bars, casinos, garages, or You need employees, or you need security guards, and you can make a living anywhere."

"In my opinion, the economy has gotten better in the past two years. If I save more money, I can even buy a small detached house on the edge of the wealthy area in the south. Oh, you should live in the center there, after all They say you're a millionaire."

"My grandson is not as lucky as you, but it is enough, he is better than me, at least he was born in a house that will not leak, and his mother takes good care of him, and his father is outside Make money, and we're doing pretty well, right?"

Maybe it's because the headache has improved a lot. The old man seemed very energetic and kept thinking about the details of his life. At this time, Bruce's thoughts drifted far away.

A word from Rifle made him think.

Gotham's criminal industry planning is so perfect that it is almost impossible for it to be formed naturally. Gangsters emerge from chaos, and it is impossible for everyone to organize these industries spontaneously.

How did the city become what 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 turn this place into a crime capital? Can't you just do something else?

Gotham is simply the biggest flower among all the cities in the United States. It has been running smoothly for such a long time with a bizarre and twisted posture, and it has become one of the most prosperous cities on the East Coast. An extremely outrageous method has rushed to the forefront of the GDP of cities in the United States. People's living standards are not only passing, but also excellent.

His creator must have been a genius. He wrote order out of disorder, creating a new mode of urban operation almost out of thin air.

But at the same time, he must be a lunatic, using his crazy creativity to create the world's largest capital of crime with his own hands.

Bruce thought, maybe here, there is only a thin line between a genius and a lunatic. Gotham is like a coin standing between the two of them. It looks as if it will fall at any time, but until today, it is still swaying on this line. superior.

Everyone here, like this city, has two sides in one body, a genius with special talents, and an incomparable lunatic.

The genius is on the left, the madman is on the right, and everyone in Gotham has the same traffic rules as here——

I go straight and never turn.

Today's 4D update is sent.

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