Rein took up residence in the warm fireplace.

Benji, the waitress on the night shift with Zhuona, showed him around the house and took him to the shower room to wash up.

Benji is a boy with freckles on his face, a little naturally curly hair, and a penchant for broken thoughts.

From his mouth, Lei Yin knew that there were nine people in the "warm fireplace", including: Aunt Susan, the proprietress of the house, her daughter Emily, Uncle Rodman, the cook, Brother Derpy (Benji called him so), Aunt Angelina, who was in charge of hygiene, and the three golden flowers that supported the façade: Sunflower Zhuona (because she was a neighbor with Zhuona, so she was not specially introduced), Hyacinth Phil (Benji said that she was the strongest, relying on her seniority and a little good-looking, and often bullied him), Rosemary Meilan (Benji's eyes are full of red hearts when he talks about Meilan), errand runner Jack (who is actually a waiter like Benji), and Benji himself.

The warm fireplace is usually divided into morning and evening shifts, and today it is Benji and Zhuona who are in charge of entertaining from afternoon to evening.

By the time Rein came out of the shower room, Benji had already told him the general situation of the hotel, and he didn't know when he was busy. Rein was finally happy and quiet, and went to his room. Rein's room is December and is located at the end of the corridor on the second floor. There are twelve rooms on this floor, named from January to December, and each door is decorated with the flower pattern of the month, which is warm and elegant. There are also twelve rooms on the third floor, and I don't know what to use to identify them.

When he entered the room, Rein didn't completely dry his hair, so he threw himself straight on the bed, and the soft and warm quilt touched his cheeks, faintly smelling of the sun. Lei Yin didn't expect to be able to smell this kind of smell that only can be found at home, and his good impression of the warm fireplace couldn't help but add a little more.

Finally able to rest, Rein wanted to take a good look at his thoughts so that he could figure out what to do next, and after thinking about it, he fell asleep on his stomach on the bed......

It was quiet, as quiet as if the sound was just an illusion made up by someone else.

"Whew-"

A gust of wind blew, blowing the long curtains and blowing into Rein's dream.

Unlike reality, in the dream, Rein was endlessly seeing endless flames rioting in front of him.

Bursting yellow and white, the raging temperature fluctuated dramatically between high and extreme heat as the flames scurried. It's like a raging creature losing its mind, like an uncontrollable element running wild.

The disembodied flame has a constantly changing form, continuous and disconnected, broken but constantly extinction, a large expanse of fiery hues changing irregularly in front of it, hot red, hot yellow, hot white, and the black that seems to contain infinite energy entangled in it, all hues carry the temperature that burns everything, dancing wildly, shouting, running, laughing at everything and destroying everything.

Caught in a sea of fire, boundless, Rein felt like he was floating in the air weightlessly, pierced by the flames of rage, piercing his thin spirit body little by little, penetrating into his soul by the incomprehensible heat, burning, then ignishing, scorching, incinerating.

Rein felt that his pupils were about to turn into ashes, and as the only void soul he had turned into an absolute nothingness again, he felt that all the water in his body had evaporated, that every detail of himself was going to catch fire, that everything wanted to burst. Although he couldn't see his body, the feeling was clearly there.

In addition to the flames, there are always well-defined unidentified entities gushing out of the sea of lifeless fire. The entity was like earth, like stone, like an unknown creature that would stretch and rush from the condensation of all objects with fixed forms, madness, riots, knocking down everything in sight, penetrating and devouring everything it encountered, even the boundless flames. The entity brutally tore through the flames, and violently invaded in a domineering manner, like a long strip of iron that condensed and suddenly fell into shape as soon as it came into contact with the air, or like a volcanic lava that melted into liquid and poured out of the ground and turned back into rock, or stabbed horizontally, or drove straight in, or slashed wildly, or swept in all directions, and walked in the flames in all directions. The entity burst into the flames, and the flames enraged by the intruder burst open, a relentless rage crashing into the intruder. The intruding entity was immediately burned to a fiery red or golden hue, but it did not suffocate the entity's next frenzied invasion. So the rampant flame and the rampant entity fought fiercely in this crazy space.

The unbelievable image of the destruction in front of him burst into Rein's eyes, and he didn't know what to think. He couldn't see his body, but he could clearly feel the pervasive heat burning his soul. The bursting flames and the irregular entities entangled, fought, and killed in the most tragic way in the space he was in, and he was shocked by the madness in front of him, not knowing what life and death were, and then the raging flames and entities pushed the battlefield to this side in an instant, and before Ray could react, he was frantically and savagely penetrated, devoured, shattered and destroyed his entire spirit body.

Rein woke up suddenly.

There was no fire, no light, and he saw darkness before him.

After a long pause, he found himself red and soaked in sweat.

His throat was dry, his headache was splitting, as if he had just finished fighting on the battlefield, as if his soul had been torn apart.

Rein stepped off the bed, walked to the side and took the kettle, and swallowed the cold water in his stomach in one gulp, and it took a long time for all the discomfort to subside.

With your back against the wall, your body slowly sliding down, and finally sitting on the ground, it's really uncomfortable. He didn't know what was going on.

After a while, Rein felt that the water in his body was depleted in a short period of time.

Water, water.

The urgent word kept flashing in Rein's mind, and his bloodshot eyes looked through the darkness as if he wanted to see a pool of water in front of him.

In front of me was a dark room, which was an ordinary room in an inn. Rein suddenly remembered that he was in a room with a warm fireplace.

The window was open, and the faint light outside the window could be faintly seen. At this time, the air was sweltering, and a cloudy breath lingered in the darkness.

There should be a moon tonight, and there should be moonlight outside the window.

The absence of moonlight at this moment means that there are clouds covering the sky.

Eventually, the clouds will disperse.

Suddenly, the clouds in the sky were blown away by the wind, and the moonlight shone into the room again through the window.

Then the moonlight reflected a dark shadow on the windowsill.

The dark shadow had his back to the moon, his dim outline outlined by the moonlight, and his long hair reflected the moon's faint light, as if covered with a layer of frost.

Rein looked at the black figure that appeared silently and was startled.

The shadow didn't move, he spoke, and his voice seemed to come from far away: "Who are you?" ”

Lei Yin looked at the person squatting on the windowsill a little uncertainly, but he didn't expect him to ask a question first, and he was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "I should ask this question, who are you?" Why are you here? ”

“……”

The shadow did not answer, he sat on the windowsill, and the night wind blew, blowing his long hair and flying in the darkness. Rein couldn't see his face, but he had an inexplicable sense of connection, this person, and himself had some kind of connection.

Lei Yin suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked, "Did you summon me here?" And just now, those strange flames in my dream, are you the ghost? ”

The black shadow didn't speak, and slowly turned his head, Rein couldn't see his face, but he was surprised to see his eyes. It would have been impossible to see his eyes in the dark, but Rein did.

It was a pair of eyes as deep as an abyss, bottomless. Because it was darker than darkness, deeper than night, Rein saw it, and this sight made his heart seem to be swallowed up by endless darkness.

Vaguely, Rein seemed to see two pointed protrusions on his forehead, like the sharp horns of a king.

Rein tried to speak, but opened his mouth to find that he couldn't make a sound.

He touched his throat a little frightened, but he couldn't.

He couldn't speak, but the shadow sitting on the windowsill moved, and he slowly opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

His mouth grew bigger and wider, and his whole face grew larger and more hideous, and then devoured Rhine violently.

Rein saw that his pupils were dilated, and he didn't expect to suddenly encounter such a terrifying change.

The huge mouth stretched out quickly, swallowing him in one gulp.

"Ah——!!!h

Rein screamed and jerked off the bed.

"Huh...... ......Shh Woohoo......"

He gasped for breath, stretched out his hands in a panic to look through them, and reached out to quickly touch his head, neck, and body, and was relieved after confirming that he was still a complete person.

I'm still there.

It turned out that it was a dream just now.

This dream is too real, isn't it......

Rein turned his head to look at the windowsill in the darkness, where the dark shadow had appeared just now, and now there was nothing but curtains.

A light breeze blows in through the window, bringing a touch of coolness.

Only then did Lei Yin realize that he was soaking wet, his body was hot, but his sweat was cold.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand, and it was wet.

He exhaled, stepped out of bed, and picked up a towel to wipe his face.

Why did you have such a horrible dream? Is it because you don't feel comfortable in a strange place?

Returning to reality, Rein was still in a trance, afraid that he was still in a dream.

He walked to the window and looked out.

Outside the window is an alley, opposite the walls and corridors of other people's houses, there are no lights, only the pale white moonlight faintly illuminates the corridor, and you can vaguely see a few potted plants in the corridor of the opposite house, and the leaves are trembling slightly in the night breeze.

The stone-built house has a heavy sense of reality that tells Rein that he is not in a dream.

"Meow—"

A cat meow sounded, and Ray leaned out of the window to see a black cat flashing on the roof of the house opposite.