Chapter 237: Otos, the Silent Knight
The surrounding streets were lined with shops. Thanks to temporary notices issued over the past two days by commerce, fire safety, and other relevant agencies, most shops that would normally have stayed open at night had their lights off.
Apart from the streetlights, anyone looking out the window of a speeding vehicle would travel a long way before occasionally spotting a brightly lit convenience store.
With traffic restrictions in place and the traffic police and military responding rapidly under a unified command structure, most vehicles moving through the sealed-off zone now belonged to combat units. Ordinary vehicles had either been directed out or were being guided toward the exits.
Once the various government agencies mobilized, their ability to exert control was formidable in a society that had not yet collapsed, even when operating in secrecy.
The two modified Jinbei vans carrying Otos's patrol unit, Macrophage Team 2, raced down the street.
They rapidly closed on the target location: four hundred meters, three hundred meters. When they were roughly fifty meters away, both vans abruptly stopped.
Their doors opened simultaneously, and Otos was the first to emerge from the lead van, his body as powerfully built as an ox.
Like Baru, Otos was a true Silent Knight who had received the rite. Simply standing there, he resembled a ferocious beast in human form.
The soldiers in both vans climbed out as well, spreading to either side in a defensive formation.
Looking at the burly man ahead, who weighed at least as much as two adults without appearing remotely fat, anyone unaware of the circumstances would certainly concentrate their fire on him first if he stood beside a Spirit Mother.
Since the operation began, Otos had killed nine Spirit Mothers. Some he had slain at their