Chapter 72: Genius on the Left, Madman on the Right (Part 2)

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

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

He was just a freshman, and he had to take over an atypical mental hospital in his first internship. Although there was no real mental patient in this mental hospital, he was more dangerous and troublesome than a mental patient.

When Bruce questioned whether he could do the job, Schiller told him: "Sometimes, if you don't push yourself, you don't know you are a genius."

On the first day of work, Bruce encountered a big problem. He couldn't tell who was who here.

Although he had memorized all the patient files as thick as a book, and remembered all their names, room numbers and corresponding medical records, if this was in an ordinary hospital, it would be enough for an intern to do this.

But unfortunately, there was no mental patient in the traditional sense here. Behind their names and diagnosis books was an extremely complex social identity.

Who is a member of which gang? Which gang has a bad relationship with which gang? Who used to be an enemy of whom? Who is a partner of whom? This information cannot be seen from the medical records.

In the past, Bruce probably heard some of Schiller's phone calls. His memory, which is far superior to that of ordinary people, made this information a gift package for his beginners. It doesn't matter if he can't figure out everyone's social identity. He can reverse it from these existing clues.

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

The identity of the world's richest man provides him with a lot of benefits. Generally, no gang member thinks that the world's richest man will deliberately come to him to talk. Therefore, when Bruce showed interest in the gangster story, the gang bosses just thought that this young rich man, like the son of a rich man, had lived a comfortable life for too long and yearned for the exciting life in gangster movies.

Therefore, although they added a lot of their own fabrications when telling stories, Bruce can still infer real and useful information about the social relations of gangs from these stories.

In a city where almost everyone is related to gangs, figuring out the complicated gang relations almost means figuring out all the veins of the city's bottom layer.

Bruce found that the survival rules of this city are much more complicated than he imagined.

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

These small gangs often undertake the business of patrolling the streets and petty thefts, and they also have to pay protection fees to larger gangs for their use.

And the larger gangs, which can have hundreds of people, are the mainstream of Gotham. Most of them have one or two industries, which may be shops or factories.

They provide protection for these industries, drive away troublemakers, and remotely control their small gangs to solicit customers. When conflicts arise over customers, they will also have small-scale fights, but they basically hide behind the car and shoot a few shots with a pistol, and rarely use large-scale firepower.

Going up, there are large gangs with hundreds of people. These gangs have reached another level. Each of them has at least one special industry to survive. Bruce discovered that these damn gangs have even achieved industry segmentation.

When they reach a scale of hundreds of people, they often control at least one smuggling chain or a complete industrial chain of planting, refining and sales, or they control the vast majority of industries in the red-light district. Some of the best among them have even achieved a monopoly in a certain industry in a certain area.

At this level, the profits they can grab every day have reached a rather astonishing level, and saturation has also occurred.

Above that, they can no longer be called gangs, but family crime groups. The twelve gang families that rule Gotham, except for the core force controlled by their bosses, actually do not have any business that they need to personally handle. What they have to do is to remotely control these big gangs. Each gang family has dozens or hundreds of big gangs under their command, who are in charge of different businesses in different areas.

When Falcone established the twelve families, he used twelve different industries to let them focus on their own.

And Falcone is at the top of the pyramid, giving orders to all families and gangs.

In 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 from the criminal industry layer by layer, and then redistributed and produced by the top.

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

"I Have a Book of Ghosts and Gods"

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 little by little, 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, just carrying an old-fashioned rifle, rushed to Gotham, and killed the gang members who wanted to frame his son-in-law with a few shots.

The Lauren family, one of the twelve families, took a fancy to the 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, Much better already.

"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 school uniforms to go to school?”

He took another drag on his cigarette. The old man even had the look of 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 do 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 was already doing a good job. Although I didn't read any books, I still had to read. Gotham is much better."

Bruce said: "Gotham is better than rushing into the 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 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 its own set of order here. If you don't want to declare war on a gang, then 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 part 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 Satan's judgment waiting for me, but I don't care, you know why?"

Before Bruce could answer, Rifle said himself: "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 with no worries about food and clothing like you. My father lost everything in gambling, my mother ran away with someone else, and my only property is an old gun that is not very good. 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 goes on for a long time, and people are doing 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 restaurants and learn cooking from the boss, or go to bars and learn bartending. The most powerful ones are those who can learn skills in casinos. , those are all born clever people.”

"Those who are agile can become pickpockets, those who have good eyesight can be sentinels, and the worst can learn some fighting skills from others. There are so many gangs. Restaurants, bars, casinos, and car repair shops either need employees or security guards. You can make a living anywhere."

"In my opinion, the economy has been better in the past two years. If I save more money, I can even buy a small independent house on the edge of the rich area in the south. Oh, you should live in the center of there, after all, they say you are a rich man."

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"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. His father makes money outside. We live well, right?"

Perhaps because his headache has improved a lot. The old man seems very energetic and keeps mumbling some details of his life. At this time, Bruce's thoughts drift far away.

Rifle's words made him start thinking.

Gotham's crime industry planning is very perfect, which is almost impossible to be formed naturally. The gangs are born from chaos, and it is impossible for everyone to spontaneously organize these industries.

So how did this city become the weird one it is today?

Could it be that someone really designed it like this on purpose?

What is his purpose? He has the ability to plan the industrial chain so perfectly, so why does he have to make it a crime capital? Can't he do something else?

Gotham is simply the biggest wonder among all cities in the United States. It has been running smoothly for such a long time in a bizarre and twisted posture. It has become one of the most prosperous cities on the East Coast by taking a different approach. It has rushed to the forefront of the GDP of cities in the United States in an extremely outrageous way. People's living standards are not only qualified, but also excellent.

His creator must be a genius. He wrote order with disorder and created a new urban operation model almost out of thin air.

But at the same time, he must be a madman. He used his crazy creativity to create the world's largest capital of crime.

Bruce thought, maybe here, genius and madness are only separated by a thin line, Gotham is like a coin standing between the two, it seems as if it will fall at any time, but until today, it is still swinging on this line.

Everyone here, like this city, has two sides, both a genius with special talents and an unparalleled madman.

Genius is on the left, madman is on the right, and everyone in Gotham is the same as the traffic rules here-

I go straight, I will never turn.

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