Most S.H.I.E.L.D. agents surrendered one after another. All firearms and ammunition were confiscated by the First Secret Regiment, ensuring that no one could get their hands on a weapon. Aside from the armed personnel who occupied rooms and attempted to make a last stand, the Ranger Cavalry showed no mercy. The Praetorian Commander had already announced over the broadcast that they were to lay down their weapons and surrender, but some still believed they would be facing an extremely cautious agent force made up of ordinary people. They tried to inflict casualties on the invaders with overlapping fire from ordinary light weapons, Booby Trap traps, and similar methods.
But the Ranger Cavalry were not ordinary people. Conventional light weapons simply could not harm Ranger Cavalry clad in iron armor, covered head to toe in Mechanical Implantation, and moving with precision on the level of industrial machines—even if the S.H.I.E.L.D. armed personnel were battle-hardened Marines who had fought in Middle Eastern street warfare, they had little ability to resist the Ranger Cavalry. The Medbay was now packed with wounded soldiers, while black plastic body bags from the base's stores had been lined up neatly in the corridors as a warning to those who refused to obey orders.
Still, the vast majority of armed personnel had surrendered, and Constantine let out a long breath of relief.
After all, aside from the loyalist agents trained by S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, the other armed personnel were merely working for a paycheck. There was no need to give their lives to S.H.I.E.L.D. for money. Fear tactics worked best against enemies with no faith whatsoever. Like most people who joined the United States Army, they had not enlisted out of any ideal, but to make money or because they had no other employable skills. After leaving the service,