Schiller was called back by the principal, and even if he could control it remotely, he actually needed someone else to manage the affairs of the psychiatric hospital, and this task fell to Bruce.

Schiller was relieved to throw all the work directly to Bruce, who always felt that the professor had more confidence in him than he had in himself.

He was only a freshman in college, and in his first internship he was about to take over an atypical psychiatric hospital, in which he had to manage, although there was not a real psychiatric patient, but it was more dangerous and troublesome than the mentally ill.

When Bruce questioned his ability to do 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 had a big problem, he couldn't tell who was here.

Even though he had memorized all the patient files as thick as a book, and memorized the names and room numbers of all of them and the corresponding medical records, it would be enough for an intern to do this in an ordinary hospital.

But unfortunately, there is not a single mentally ill person in the traditional sense, and behind their names and diagnoses is an extremely complex social identity.

Who are the members of which gang? Which yakuza has a bad relationship with which yakuza? Who and who were once enemies? Who and who are the partners? This information is not discernible from the cases.

In the past, when listening to Schiller's phone calls, Bruce probably heard something, and his memory far beyond ordinary people made this information his newbie gift bag, and he couldn't understand everyone's social identity, it didn't matter, he could deduce from these existing clues.

In addition to this, Bruce is very good at disguise, just like his disguise for this playboy identity, in this hospital, he has become a rich man with a bold personality, pampered personality, but full of yearning for the gangster life.

The status of the richest man in the world has provided him with a lot of gains, and generally no gangster member thinks that the richest man in the world will deliberately come to his words, so when Bruce shows his interest in the story of the gangster, the gang bosses just think that this young rich man, like the son of a rich man, has lived a comfortable life for a long time, yearning for the exciting life in gangster movies.

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Therefore, although they added a lot of their own fiction when telling the story, Bruce was still able to deduce real and useful information about the social relationship of the gang from these stories.

In a city where almost everyone has something to do with gangsters, figuring out this complicated gangster relationship is almost figuring out all the veins at the bottom of the city.

Bruce discovers that the city's rules of survival are much more complex than he imagined.

Starting from the small gangsters at the bottom, even if it is a small gang of only a dozen people, they have their own rules of survival.

These petty gangsters are often in the business of patrolling the streets and stealing, and they also have to pay protection money to the larger gangs for them to drive.

And the bigger ones can have gangs of hundreds of people, these gangs are the mainstream of Gotham, and most of them have one or two industries in their hands, which may be shops or factories.

They provide protection for these industries, evict troublemakers, remotely control small gangs under their hands to solicit customers, and when some conflicts arise for customers, they will also have small-scale firefights, but basically they hide behind the car and fire two shots with pistols, and rarely use large-scale firepower.

Further up there are the big gangsters with hundreds of people, and these gangs have reached another level, each of them has at least one special industry to live on, and Bruce discovers that these damn gangsters have even achieved industry subdivision.

When it comes to a few hundred people, they often control at least one smuggling chain, or have a complete industrial chain of cultivation, refining and sales, or control the vast majority of industries in a red light district, and some of the best of them even have a monopoly in a certain industry in a certain area.

At this level, the amount of profit they can make every day has reached a rather staggering level, and it is also saturated.

The twelve gangster families that rule Gotham, in addition to the core force in the hands of their speakers, actually do not have any business that needs to be done personally, what they want to do is to remotely control these big gangsters, and each gangster family has dozens or hundreds of big gangsters under them, in charge of different businesses in different areas.

When Falcone established the twelve families, they had twelve different industries to focus on.

Falcone, on the other hand, is at the top of the pyramid, dictating to all the families and gangs.

In the collection and analysis of this information, Bruce found that the seemingly chaotic rules of Gotham are actually quite a solid pyramid, where wealth is extracted from the criminal industry layer by layer, and then redistributed and produced by the top.

In this cycle, Gotham has created its own unique ecosystem, creating the largest concentration of crime industries in the United States.

At the same time, Bruce found that, contrary to what he imagined, from a sociological and economic point of view, the city's industrial structure was still damn healthy, whether it was the distribution of industrial volume at all levels, or the so-called division of industrial clusters, it was actually better than most cities in the United States.

As the investigation deepened, Bruce began to doubt his original intentions little by little, because he found that although Gotham was evil, it was not actually poor, and the people's standard of living was not low, and in addition to being dangerous, the people here were quite rich.

In the course of his travels to the United States, Bruce has also studied the living standards of people in major cities in the United States, and he found that the living standards of the vast majority of people in the damn city of Gotham are still much higher than the passing line.

During his visit to the hospital, Bruce met an old man who was coming from the city, and people called him "Rifle".

The rifle was originally the one who was going to storm the city, but his daughter married to Gotham, married to a small gang leader, this little boss was maliciously framed, and his daughter almost suffered misfortune, received the rifle from his daughter for help, directly carried an old-fashioned rifle, rushed to Gotham, and killed the gang members who wanted to frame his son-in-law in a few shots.

The Lauren family, one of the twelve families, fell in love with the old man's temper and his good skills, and now he is the owner of a restaurant in the west side of the Lauren family.

Unlike other gang members, this old man really came to the hospital, he had a long-term headache, which seemed to be a complication of anxiety, so his son-in-law found a relationship to send him in for treatment, and after two courses of treatment, he has been much better.

"Everywhere is the same, everything is the same......"

Rifle smoked a cigar, leaned back on the hospital bed, and said to Bruce, "How much better do you think it would be to storm the city?" Everyone lives on clean streets, every family has a car to drive, and children wear school uniforms to school? ”

He took another puff of his cigarette, and the old man even had some Southern aristocratic style, like a real rifle.

With the smoke acrimoning, he slowly recalled, "When I met Mary, you know, decades ago...... At that time, I was a poor boy, and I was also wandering 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 too little, sometimes I don't even have a penny in my pocket, I want to marry Mary, but I don't have any money, how can we 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 already did a good job, although I didn't read any books, but if I want to read, Gotham is a lot stronger."

Bruce said, "Gotham is stronger than storming the city?" ”

If it weren't for an old man who seemed to be quite knowledgeable, Bruce would have thought he had a bad brain.

"I know, you sons and daughters with serious identities think that this city is rotten, full of gangsters, and everyone is a criminal, but for people like us, whoever works is the same as working hard, and whoever gives more money will follow whomever we want."

"In Gotham, as long as you're an official member of a gang, you're actually making a lot of money, and like me, having a restaurant or a bar in your hands is no different from doing big business."

"And here, the members of the gang are actually safer, there is their own set of order here, if you don't want to declare war on a gang, then it's better not to touch his people, even if it's just a gangster at the bottom."

"Therefore, those who join the gang in order to support their families are actually safer than other places, because here the gang has the final say, and if you become a member of the gang, it will naturally be easier to speak."

"I know, I know......" Rifle put down his cigarette and said, "I know very well that being a killer is going to be punished, I will go to hell, and there will be satanic judgment waiting for me, but I don't care, do you know why?" ”

Before Bruce could reply, the rifle himself said, "I need to fill my stomach first, make more money, and live a better life." ”

"God didn't let me be born into a family like you, my father lost everything in gambling, my mother ran away with someone else, and my only possession was a not-so-smart old gun, so I thought, what can I do if I do it?"

"After coming to Gotham, I realized that the person who built the city must be a genius, don't you think these gangs are too well planned? It's even a perfect balance that keeps the city going for a long time, and the people are doing well. ”

"What's the name of my son-in-law? …… Forget it, we all call him "one hand", his left hand was cut off by his father when he was a child who was addicted to drugs and had a bad brain, but he grew up working with the casino owner on their street, specializing in dice throwing, even bought a car last year, and will get married next month. ”

"The gangster industry is very large, they are very short of people, as long as they have hands and feet to work, they will accept anything."

"Children don't go to school, they can learn a craft in the gang, they have a bit of brains, they go to work in a restaurant and learn to cook with the boss, or go to a bar to learn how to bartend, and the most powerful thing is the people who can learn technology in the casino, they are all born clever ghosts."

"If you are flexible, you will be a pickpocket, if you have good eyes, you will keep an eye on the wind, and if you are the worst, you can also learn a few kung fu from other people, there are so many gangs, restaurants, bars, casinos, car repair shops, you either need employees, or you need security guards, you can eat anywhere."

"If you want me to see, the economy has been better in the last two years, and I can save up again, and I can even buy a small house on the edge of the rich area in the south, oh, you should live in the center there, after all, they say you are a rich man."

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

Perhaps because the headache was much better, the old man seemed to be very energetic, and kept reading some details of his life, but at this time, Bruce's mind drifted far away.

A sentence from the rifle got him thinking.

Gotham's criminal industry is perfectly planned, it is almost impossible for it to be natural, the gangs are born out of chaos, and they can't everyone organize these industries on their own.

So how did the city come to be the quirky way it is today?

Could it be that someone deliberately designed it to be like this?

So what is his purpose? He has the ability to plan the industrial chain so perfectly, so why do he have to make this a crime capital? Isn't it okay to do something else?

Gotham is simply one of the biggest strange flowers in all the cities in the United States, it has been running smoothly for so long in a bizarre and twisted attitude, and it has become one of the most prosperous cities on the East Coast, and in a very outrageous way, it has rushed to the forefront of the GDP of the American cities, and people's living standards are not only passing, but also impacting excellent.

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

But at the same time, he must have been a madman, using his crazy ideas to create the world's largest capital of sin.

Bruce thought that maybe there was a fine line between genius and madman here, and Gotham was like a coin standing between the two of them, looking as if it was going to fall at any moment, but it still dangled on that line to this day.

Everyone here, like the city, is both a genius with special gifts and an incomparable madman.

Geniuses are on the left, madmen are on the right, and everyone in Gotham is the same as the traffic rules here-

If I go straight, I will never turn a corner.