nycdaug Chapter 536 Monster
Chapter 536 Monster
It was a night with no stars or moon.
As soon as the first bell of the third watch was struck, the emperor woke up from his nightmare.
In the dream, the twenty newly selected beauties all had pale faces, sharp claws growing out of their delicate hands, and ghostly hissing sounds coming from their throats as they all rushed towards him.
The emperor was terrified and unable to make a sound, with his throat making a gurgling sound.
He suddenly opened his eyes and saw that he was still lying on the dragon bed. The candlelight outside the tent was dim. Then he breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out to be just a nightmare.
"Queen..."
The emperor turned over and found that there was no one around him. The empress was nowhere to be found.
"Someone is coming——"
It was quiet outside the bedroom, even the maid who was on night watch was nowhere to be seen.
The emperor felt a sudden tightness in his heart and quickly put on his clothes and walked out of the hall.
The glass lamps flickered, and none of the palace servants or maids guarding outside the palace were to be seen.
At this moment, he faintly smelled a sweet and fishy smell, which seemed to come from the side hall.
An ominous premonition came to mind.
He tiptoed around to the back window, gently poked a hole in the window paper, and looked inside.
Moonlight filtered in through the carved window lattices, casting mottled shadows on the blue brick floor and illuminating the small figure huddled in the corner.
That was his two-year-old daughter, Princess Oriko!
The emperor's pupils suddenly contracted and his breathing suddenly stopped.
He saw the new queen squatting in front of the child. Her profile, which was usually gentle and smiling, glowed with a bluish-white phosphorescence in the moonlight.
The child's limbs were twisted at strange angles, as if all the bones had been pulled out.
"My good daughter,"
Chu Feixue's voice was as sticky as a spider web, and her fingertips gently brushed across the child's cheek. "This pure soul is the best tonic in the world."
She opened her mouth, which was not a human mouth. The corners of her lips were torn to her ears, revealing densely packed fangs.
Then, countless silver bugs flew out of her mouth!
The emperor was horrified and covered his mouth tightly, not daring to make a sound.
The little silver flies flew towards Princess Oriko and covered her entire body.
He watched helplessly as the child's body shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a piece of human skin tightly attached to the bones.
A ray of pale golden light was rising from the child's head. It was Oriko's soul that had not yet been polluted by the world.
Chu Feixue raised her head, and the ball of light slipped into her mouth.
She then let out a contented sigh, and her originally pale cheeks instantly turned a sickly red.
The Emperor bit his sleeve hard to prevent himself from screaming, his knuckles turning white from excessive force.
"It's a pity that the dragon energy of the ruler of a small country in the East China Sea is too thin."
Chu Feixue stood up, clicked her tongue, and the hem of her skirt swept across the ground, making a rustling sound.
"Hurry up, it's almost dawn."
More insects flew out of her sleeves and covered the dried corpse on the ground like a tide. In just a moment, they had eaten the corpse clean!
The emperor was terrified.
He never imagined that the queen who slept with him every night was actually a man-eating monster!
His heart was pounding, and he turned around to escape, but accidentally knocked the celadon vase off the windowsill.
The crisp sound of "clang" was particularly harsh in the silent night.
The emperor almost crawled behind the rockery, and through the cracks in the rocks, he saw Chu Feixue pushing the door open and coming out.
Her face had returned to its usual beauty and gentleness, but there was a strange blush at the corners of her eyes and eyebrows that still lingered.
"Who is there?"
She asked in a clear voice.
The emperor held his breath and watched her slowly walk around the window and pick up the vase on the ground.
"It turned out that the night wind knocked something over."
Chu Feixue showed a strange smile on her face, turned around and slowly walked back to the bedroom.
The emperor curled up behind the rockery, his whole body cold as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
He saw the fleeting sneer in the corner of the queen's eyes - she knew he had been there.
He almost staggered out of the main hall and stopped only when he bumped into the vermilion pillar of the corridor. He held onto the pillar and vomited violently, but he could not vomit anything, only acid burning his throat.
The night wind blew up the corners of his robe, and the faint sound of a clapper came from afar. It was already four o'clock in the morning.
The emperor looked back and saw that the windows of the side hall were pitch black. Only the sweet and fishy smell drifted over on the wind, like an invisible hand strangling his throat.
He suddenly remembered the flash of enthusiasm in her eyes when she heard that a concubine was pregnant, which he mistook for joy.
He just thought she was virtuous and sensible, so what else didn't he understand now?
She expanded his harem and arranged for him to sleep with her just to make him give birth to more offspring for her to devour!
It turns out that his child is just her reserve food!
The emperor covered his face with his hands, suppressing sobs escaping through his fingers.
He was the ruler of a country, but at this moment he was like a helpless child, with fear gripping his heart tightly.
He didn't dare to say anything, not even to show the slightest sign of abnormality - he didn't know how powerful the monster was, and he didn't know how many people in the palace had become her food!
As the sky gradually brightened, the emperor heard the hurried footsteps of palace servants and quickly hid in an empty room.
"Oh no, the little princess is missing!"
"Hurry and report to the Queen!"
The emperor looked out of the window quietly and saw Princess Oriko's wet nurse and palace maids stumbling towards him, their faces full of panic.
Soon, the panicked shouts of the palace servants were heard again in the distance.
"Someone, the Queen is so frightened that she has fainted! Call the imperial physician!"
"Where's your Majesty? Where's your Majesty? Has anyone seen your Majesty?"
The emperor suddenly straightened his back, wiped the tears from his face, and wiped the blood from his palms with the sleeves of his dragon robe.
He cannot "disappear", he must survive and pretend that he knows nothing until he finds a way to deal with the monster!
The Emperor calmed himself down, stepped out of the palace, and called out in a trembling voice, "Someone come—"
A maid ran over hurriedly and knelt down.
"Your Majesty, this is bad..."
"What's the fuss about?"
The emperor pretended to be calm, but his hands were trembling slightly under his sleeves.
"Your Majesty, the little princess is missing! The Queen has fainted!"
"Quickly call the imperial physician!" The emperor frowned.
"Order the guards to search all the palaces. Perhaps the little princess was naughty and hid somewhere."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
After the maid left, the emperor pinched his thigh hard and forced himself to calm down.
Since the monster wanted him to have more children, it would definitely not harm him at the moment.
After figuring out this key point, the emperor secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He calmed himself down and walked towards the bedroom.
There was chaos in the hall, and the palace servants knelt down when they saw him coming back.
"Your Majesty is back!"
"When the Queen heard that the little princess was missing, she fainted from shock!"
The emperor pinched his thigh again, then walked towards the dragon bed with his head held high.
Inside the tent, Chu Feixue was pale and unconscious, her beautiful eyes and eyebrows looking frail and helpless.
The emperor opened the curtain tremblingly, and Chu Feixue's eyes suddenly opened!
The emperor was so frightened that he almost screamed.