In those days of Plants vs. Zombies

Chapter 659 Fearless, and with No Other Choice

After finishing breakfast with rosemary in hand, there was still plenty of time before Major General Canon's visit.

After leaving his residence, Mo Chen planned to go to the Community Tree to look up some information about the Redemption Path.

Although the notoriety of this criminal group has spread throughout the modern world, its members have left their mark on everything from the core cities of the Federation to the remote towns on the outskirts of the Empire.

However, precisely because the scale of the Path to Redemption is so vast, the related information and data are also incredibly complex, making it difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

Extracting useful information from this is not an easy task for Mo Chen.

Fortunately, the equipment in the War Courtyard is of military grade, which prevents it from lagging when processing these massive data streams.

Soon, with the help of Xiao Da and Prometheus, Mo Chen found a lot of information he wanted to know.

These fragments, pieced together, gradually outlined a vast, dark silhouette.

As mentioned before, Redemption Path's business scope is extremely broad, covering almost every chapter of the Federal Constitution.

However, their core, and currently most important, means of making money is still the despicable act of "human trafficking".

Whether it's deceiving and abducting naive and ignorant homeless children, or taking great risks to forcibly seize rare targets of immense value, these are all routine operations on the road to redemption.

With enough "goods," these villains were able to continuously expand their business, and then extend the reach of the Redemption Road to other criminal chains.

Within the Path of Redemption, there exists an extremely cold-blooded rating system.

As long as an intelligent being possesses "value," regardless of its race or social status, it may become a target for the path to salvation.

Through its network of informants across the entire Garden Planet, Redemption Path's henchmen categorize targets based on their "difficulty of acquisition" and "expected returns."

They would then invest commensurate resources to "hunt" the designated target.

If the victims are ordinary people or homeless people at the bottom of society with little ability to resist, the Redemption Path often uses the simplest and most brutal means—namely, direct abduction or kidnapping.

Like hyenas hunting sheep, it's inefficient but cheap.

These lowest-grade goods would be quickly transshipped and sold to fill labor shortages or become consumables for illegal experiments.

For individuals like "Adele" who possess special abilities or rare bloodlines but lack a powerful background, the Path of Redemption displays a nauseating "patience".

They will first conduct long-term tracking and monitoring of the target, looking for and statistically analyzing the target's weaknesses.

Subsequently, the Redemption Path will use these weaknesses to complete its plan, luring the target step by step into the trap they have woven.

If a person of such noble status and great potential as the "Ice Princess" were to appear, it would make the path to salvation choose to "take a risk".

For those "expensive items" that are enough to influence the entire modern world, they are willing to spare no expense and activate the highest-level contingency plans.

No one knows why the Redemption Path was willing to take such a great risk to try to capture those important figures.

But this unusual behavior itself is enough to explain the problem—without sufficient incentive, these lawless thugs would never dare to touch those absolute taboos.

The fact that the Path of Redemption has survived to this day is inseparable from the instigation of certain high-ranking individuals in the modern world.

After all, at the very top of countless industrial chains, they are also dirty and evil beneficiaries and protectors.

The cold light from the display screen reflected Mo Chen's furrowed brows, and Prometheus projected a piece of encrypted data that she had just deciphered onto the corner of his retina.

The Path of Redemption maintains close ties with many powerful figures from both factions, forming a distorted "symbiotic relationship."

The existence of the former perfectly avoids the risk of the latter personally getting involved.

When they need or obtain certain "materials" or "playthings," the Redemption Path is undoubtedly the best choice.

The ultimate destination of "expensive goods" is often not a dark prison, but rather an extremely luxurious and heavily guarded private domain or secret laboratory.

That is a gray area that law and justice cannot reach, a lawless place built by the powerful and wealthy with their wealth and status.

Returning to the topic of the path to salvation, they would handle the goods differently depending on their value.

Cheap labor in unscrupulous factories, raw materials and supplies for illegal experiments, playthings and slaves in the gray market, cannon fodder and human shields for rebellious armies...

These are all considered low-level goods in the eyes of the Redemption Path, and they will be kept in large quantities in the shops for customers to choose from and buy.

The truly valuable items are sent to core strongholds for so-called "training" and "packaging," and then sold at auctions to fetch exorbitant prices for the salvation of the Heavenly Path.

In order to cover up their crimes and conduct efficient transactions, the Redemption Path will stop at nothing.

They expend enormous resources to build secret outposts or safe houses in inconspicuous corners of cities or suburbs, just to ensure that they are not discovered by law enforcement or people of justice.

They crisscross and spread throughout the modern world, forming an intricate underground transportation and trading network.

At the same time, by utilizing the "dark web" left over from the old era, the Path of Redemption has established an incredibly sophisticated and secretive trading system within the World Network.

To develop this system, they even went so far as to hunt down highly skilled hackers or unclaimed artificial intelligence several years ago.

The Redemption Path was forced to halt its operation only after it attracted the wrath of a certain S-class zombie hero.

However, they have not given up their desire for the two "commodities" mentioned above, and occasionally they still do some small things in secret that are not easy to be noticed.

To this day, the Redemption Path remains active throughout the modern world, and these audacious criminals can be found in both the Federation and the Empire.

In the chaotic war zone, it is an ideal "good place" for the Redemption Path.

Looking across hundreds of war zones worldwide, at least half of them have a branch of the Redemption Path.

Within the known structure of the Redemption Path, those who control a branch are called "Big Bosses," who have dozens of cadres and hundreds of leaders under them.

The Path of Redemption only values ​​ability, so they accept all comers. Those who become leaders are all vicious criminals who are troublesome to both sides of the world.

It is said that above the big boss, there are "big cadres" and "apostles", but the latter two have never appeared and have only been mentioned by the big boss occasionally.

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After briefly browsing through the selected internal information about the Path to Redemption, Mo Chen couldn't help but feel exhausted.

He leaned back in his chair, gently massaging his brow with his fingertips.

It is no small challenge to confront such a terrifying criminal organization head-on.

But soon, Mo Chen rallied his spirits again, realizing what he needed to do.

For Adele, for those innocent people treated as "commodities," and especially for the countless others who have been harmed by the Path of Redemption...

He was fearless and had no other choice.