"Can he see through the fog?!!" Luke whispered from behind. Elena gave him a look of pure exasperation, as if the fact that John was their "eyes" had been obvious since the first day.
"They are," John said, nodding slowly as he took his time absorbing what was going on down below. "The machines are slaughtering them. But the machines... They have a deadly…"
Just before he could voice his deep thoughts about the effect of the fog on the machines, something new happened down below, something that changed the course of the battle entirely and tilted it decisively in the machines' favour.
All of a sudden, the fog in a very wide area cleared without any warning! It was as if the machines had used tens of thousands of cores simultaneously, creating a massive space in the fog.
However, John could easily tell this wasn't the case; the machines he saw were clustered in few groups, not spread out to fill the area cleared, not to mention the fog was cleared even in the area they came from.
