Smack! Smack! I caught the two guns Tuanzi handed me, aimed them down, and barked an order.
"Twin 460MM cannons, ready!"
"Holy shit!"
Tuanzi shouted along with me. A mass of black tissue burst from the guns and raced up my
arms. Then two enormous barrels, each
twenty meters long, appeared before every zombie below.
"Zombies! Terrible weather today. Heavy rain! Please head home and take cover! Cannon barrage!"
The instant I pulled the triggers, two deafening booms reached everyone's ears. If I hadn't been wearing Little Black, I doubted
my ears would have fared well either. Two massive shells
made entirely of black tissue slammed into the ground too fast for the eye to follow.
BOOM!
BOOM!
The two explosions drowned out every other sound. Flames shot skyward, and the guns' second rounds
slid into their barrels.
BOOM! BOOM!
Orange Isle lay directly beneath me. Shellfire swallowed it in an instant, the blasts shaking heaven and earth. Every shell
wiped out dozens of
zombies. As the black-tissue shells exploded, pieces of Tuanzi stuck to the zombies that hadn't been
blown to bits.
Devouring them took only an instant. More of Tuanzi's tissue gathered rapidly and formed one huge Tuanzi
who leaped into the air, flew up behind me on wings,
and merged into my armor. I kept pulling the triggers, setting off a relentless
barrage.
The recoil drove me straight up into the sky. After that bombardment, hardly a patch of
Orange Isle remained intact. Almost every zombie
had been wiped out in the blink of an eye. Countless little Tuanzis were all that remained on the ground.
Yes. Countless Tuanzis.
The cannons formed from Tuanzi broke apart and became little Tuanzis again. Tuanzi used the energy gained by devouring other creatures
to replenish himself, then flew back to