Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 232: Quantity Conclusion
In the imperial city of the Summer Palace, Kunming Lake is no longer the rippling green water it once was.

The lake water solidified into a pool of dark green colloid, with human-faced fish corpses floating on the surface, half of the face was that of a pale beauty, and the other half was a rotten fish head.

They flapped their gills and chanted Cthulhu's prayer in unison. Their singing was as sticky as tentacles wrapped around one's ears and was creepy.

On the white marble pillars of the Seventeen-Arch Bridge in the center of the lake, there is a dragon-shaped projection of Cthulhu. The dragon scales are the color of rotten seaweed, and under each scale is an eyeball, with the faces of the drowned reflected in the pupils, as if silently telling of their pain and despair.

The Wanshou Mountain where the demon queen lived had been hollowed out into a honeycomb-like nest. Countless flesh and blood tubes hung down from the mountain wall, with the ends connected to the spines of Qing officials.

They squirmed in the pipes, spitting out black water, and transformed the people's fat and blood they had plundered from all over the place into "honeydew" to sacrifice to the evil gods.

The corridor is no longer a painted gallery, but a kilometer-long esophagus, its inner wall covered with sharp teeth and suction cups, devouring the living tributes.

Children were ground into minced meat and fed to Shub-Niggurath's womb. Young men were minced by the yellow tentacles and turned into pulp for the Yellow Gospel. Old women were stuffed into Nyarlathotep's puppet stage, forever playing the role of "loyal and patriotic" shadow puppets.

Every scene is full of distortion and madness.

Le Shou Hall became the heart of the demon queen.

The inscribed board "Ci Hui Yi Zhi" hanging in the hall has turned into a wriggling tumor, with blood vessel-like words protruding from its surface: "Peace reigns over the world, all gods pay homage to the palace."

The Demon Queen was leaning on the dragon bed, her lower body merged into the bed, and eight chains extended from her flesh and blood, each tied to eight fragments of bronze mirror.

Each fragment contains a projection of an old god, the tentacles of Cthulhu, the yellow robes of Hastur, the clock of Yog-Sothoth...

They roared and bit the mirror, while the Demon Queen kept slitting her wrists, watering the fragments with the emperor's blood, and murmured hoarsely: "Eat... When you've eaten enough, then you can protect this kingdom for me."

The strangest one is the Amusement Park.

The time here is folded into a circle by Yog-Sothoth. The lotus blooms in summer and withers in winter, the koi swim upstream and are reborn, and in the central Drinking Green Pavilion, the same scene is repeated forever.

Emperor Guangqi knelt at the feet of the Demon Queen, with a yellow tentacles tied around his neck. He mechanically repeated: "Dear mother Shengming..."

Every time he recited it, the skin and flesh would peel off, revealing the white bones, which were quickly covered with new flesh and blood. The witch stroked Guangxu's empty eye sockets and smiled softly: "Emperor, the sun of our Qing Dynasty will never set."

Emperor Guangqi just mechanically repeated "My dear mother is so wise..." and had no reaction to the words of the witch queen.

At this moment, a burst of quick but tiny footsteps came from outside the palace. The demon queen knew it was her confidant, Little Li.

It was only because Leo presented her with the "Xuan Jun Ming Ce" which was said to have been brought back by the legendary eunuch Zheng He after traveling across six oceans that she was able to complete the ceremony.

Little Leo has a pale and youthful face, and looks like he is only in his teens, but he is actually over 50 years old. It is not that he has to keep looking young, but the witch queen likes young eunuchs, so he has to keep looking young.

He was wearing a red palace official uniform, with only a bright yellow silk belt tied around his waist.

That was the reward from the Demon Queen.

Hanging on the belt are a variety of accessories, including jade pendants, agate sachets, and some small metal objects with strange shapes and engraved with mysterious runes.

Each accessory exudes a unique luster, but inexplicably makes people feel uneasy. Especially the jade pendant, the pattern carved on it is actually a distorted human figure, with blurred facial features and limbs stretched in a strange posture, as if enduring endless pain.

"What's wrong? I seem to hear some noise outside." The Demon Queen looked at her trusted eunuch and said. Little Li bowed respectfully and said, "Your Majesty, it's just that a villain has triggered the formation of the capital. That villain has been counterattacked by the formation and I think he is dead."

The empress dowager in the past was only satisfied with being a Buddha, but the empress dowager now is no longer satisfied with being a Buddha. She wants to be the Heavenly Lord, and the one and only Great Heavenly Lord in heaven and on earth!

"Hmm~" The Demon Queen hummed lightly.

"And..." Little Leo hesitated and didn't say anything.

"What's wrong?" asked the Queen.

"Also, as the national teacher said, ninety-nine fishermen must be sacrificed in Kunming Lake at midnight every day." Little Leo said.

The Imperial Master was a foreigner, and it was because of his arrival that he was able to decipher the difficult and intractable "Xuan Jun Ming Ce" and win the favor of the Demon Queen. The formations in the capital, as well as the layout of Kunming Lake and Wansui Mountain were all arranged by the Imperial Master according to "Xuan Jun Ming Ce".

At first, every day at midnight, only nine fishermen were required to be sacrificed in Kunming Lake. Later, it became nineteen, twenty-nine, and now ninety-nine. If the fishermen were not sacrificed, the human-faced fish corpses in the lake would land and devour the capital.

"They are just some lowly fishermen!" said the Queen of Demons indifferently.

Little Li continued, "The national master said that for every baby born in the orphanage, the heart must be cut out and fed to the tumor in the temple, otherwise the mother goddess will descend..."

"Just do as the Imperial Master says." The Demon Queen interrupted Little Leo before he could finish.

For her, arranging the formation and feng shui according to "Xuanjun Mingce" did not require any cost. But those costs were too insignificant compared to her immortal existence and the eternal Qing Dynasty.

"Also, as the Imperial Master said, the Eye of the Void is suspended on top of the Buddhist Incense Pavilion..."

"All is up to him!" the demon queen said impatiently. She looked at the respectful little Li Zi and said with a hint of coldness in her tone: "Why don't you understand?"

"Measure the material resources of China and win the favor of the gods! Once I have swallowed the eight foreign gods, our Qing Dynasty will exist forever! By then..." There was an almost crazy persistence in the demon queen's voice.

Little Li kowtowed quickly, his forehead pressed against the ground, his voice trembling but firm: "When the time comes, Little Li will always be the servant of the Great Heavenly Venerable, and will serve the Great Heavenly Venerable forever!"

"Okay! Since you are willing, then do as the National Master says!" The Queen of Demons waved her hand, signaling Little Leo to retreat.

"Yes!" Little Li responded and was about to leave the Demon Queen's palace when he suddenly heard the Demon Queen say, "Wait..."

"Does the Great Celestial Lord have any other decrees?" Little Li knelt down and said.

"Time is almost up, we can let those people go to the underground palace!" The Queen Demon's voice was very calm, but Little Leo's heart trembled.

He knew that those people were all royal children, descendants of founding generals, and nobles in the capital. But now they were to be sent to the underworld to become part of the sacrifice.

It’s because the dragon energy of the “Earth Essence” needs them to open it.

"Yes!" He just responded respectfully.

(End of this chapter)