The steeds, the men

In mere moments, the chaos that had stopped when Eve began her cyber-attack on Nexus had started again, if only on that small patch of the wall where Victor was. Everything was a mad mix of blasts and bodies that Victor needed to navigate somehow or suffer.

While he rushed for the Third Eye, the hexapods turned on the zombies. The robots, led by their advanced tactical algorithms, identified zombies as the highest threats. The Third Eye's mask was in the database of hexapods' targets, too, but for machines he was almost powerless.

They weren't programmed with telepaths in mind. For them, the Third Eye was simply an enhanced human. Zombies, on the other hand, were a real problem. They were that for Victor, too.

They didn't even let him close to the Third Eye, forcefully dragging him into the melee with them. Three hexapods weren't enough to suppress them quickly.