However, the complex elements hidden behind this power made it difficult for him to truly rest easy.
After all, the turnover rate among Action Team members far exceeded that of agents who stayed behind the scenes and relied on their wits.
The daily life of an Action Team was an intimate dance with death.
Their missions were often the most direct and intense firefights.
Their opponents might be terrorists who regarded death as home and worshiped extreme violence; they might be well-equipped professional mercenaries with exceptional tactical training, ghosts on the battlefield guided by money and capable of any evil; they might even directly face a nation's special forces, elite soldiers rigorously selected and trained, where every clash was the ultimate test of survival instincts and combat skills.
Not to mention the strange mutants born from scientific experiments or genetic mutations. Their existence filled every operation with the unknown and danger.
In such an environment, the Action Team's casualty rate remained high.
Death in battle was the coldest farewell on the battlefield; injury and disability meant the heavy price behind glory; psychological trauma was a wound in the hearts of survivors that could not easily heal.
Together, these factors formed the brutal reality of the Action Team's frequent personnel turnover.
A trivial intelligence error or a minor tactical oversight could instantly swallow more than a dozen brave fighters. Their lives seemed so fragile and precious on this battlefield.
Therefore, Pierce had his own unique logic when selecting and developing Action Team members.
He would not wait for recruits to join the Action Team before slowly converting them into Hydra members. On a battlefield full of variables, the survival rate of newcomers was simply too low. Such an investment was no different from throwing resources into a bottomless abyss.
Thus, every