End Journeys
The Time for Murder

Ruby speechless. I don't know how many times he's been made dumbfounded by the sect he's investigating. What made him even more frightened was that those people knew of his existence.

"Where?" ask the old man.

"He died by the river" the woman in white robes replied.

"What's? How could? Goddamnit!" the old man looked angry.

"Bring the body here!" poppy's mother's orders.

"The corpse is rotting" replied the white-robed woman.

"I don't care. Just take it, and secure the two people who are in the motel" he ordered.

"What are they doing?" ask Poppy.

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Ruby hurried to leave the place and sneaked away silently. He picks up the cell phone he had brought with him in a trick taught by Thomas, then tells Felix to hide with Thomas because the men are going to go there soon.

"Everything is converging" said one woman in a soft tone.

I don't know how many white sect leaders, this time the one who led was different.

"The job is over, now we're all headed for headquarters" he said.

He walked first and some of the newly joined white sect members followed them, including Ruby.

They walked out of the area, then got closer to the motel. Ruby realized that the closest people were in danger, especially Felix and Thomas did not immediately respond to the message. Whether the message has been read or not, Ruby did not know. They're getting close to the motel, and there's a man standing. The man Ruby met when she tried to leave after an argument with Felix.

"It turns out he's part of this sect? Felix and Thomas.." Ruby was so worried, she had been talking to herself ever since. They are in front of the motel.

"You're gonna stay here, your job is to catch two men named Felix and Thomas. Change your clothes and take off your face coverings, act like a regular visitor" the woman said. He goes away from the motel, leaving behind a new member who gets the task of catching his lover and friend.

They go into the motel, choose their own room that wants to be occupied. The man escorted the members of the sect and showed them an empty room, and lastly, he showed Felix and Ruby's room.

They all nodded without making the slightest sound then walked into their respective rooms. Ruby sneaks into his room, finding Felix and Thomas fast asleep.

"Good God these two guys. Wake up!" Ruby's picking up their ears.

"Ouch!" felix said in pain.

"What the hell!" Thomas is surprised that Ruby wakes them up.

"You didn't read my message? You idiot!" Ruby hit them in annoyance.

"What the hell," Felix opened his phone, and so did Thomas.

"Now they are here. Including me, we were assigned to arrest you. They managed to find the woman's body and thought it was me, so now I'm presumed dead" Ruby said.

"Why have you been involved so far?" Felix was very upset about what happened.

"Now help me. I'll send you this voice recording, please spread it. And please call a media partner who can spread this news quickly" Ruby said.

"Whatchu mean? How did the media get in here?" Thomas confused.

"Just look for a way for the day after tomorrow to go awry" replied Ruby.

"I have to leave immediately, you also have to leave because they know you live in this room" Ruby said.

"Where should we go?" Thomas is desperate.

"Hiding anywhere I don't know, '" Ruby cried in fear. He felt desperate because he knew the plan of the cannibal sect.

But he didn't tell Thomas and Felix that.

"You're covering something up" Thomas said.

"You don't lie to me, tell me the details" Thomas insisted.

Ruby was forced to tell everything while crying sobbing.

"That's enough. You can't go there anymore. We'll always be three everywhere" Felix can't imagine how Ruby felt in the middle of a crowd of people who embraced a strange sect under the guise of removing sins from the face of the earth.

"First, spread a photo of Poppy's mother's captive brother. Then spread out the footage I've sent," Ruby began to execute the plan.

"Ah, I managed to take a picture, but only the image of the altar," he added.

"I have a photo of this motel, I'm going to spread it out, too" the photo Thomas has reinforces the evidence of the sect's existence.

"It should have been from the beginning we went on foot but I didn't want to leave my car here, and we ended up like this" Ruby regretted.

"No, it's my fault. Didn't you take me away from here before the tree fell? But I don't want to" Felix blames himself.

"The tree that was deliberately toppled" Thomas chirped.

There are so many footsteps out there. The sect members walked out of the motel wearing ordinary clothes. It seemed like the clothes had been prepared in advance in each room that each member occupied because there was no division of clothes and people just entered the room.

"Why did you come here a little?" ask Felix to Ruby.

"Adjust the number of rooms here. Here there are 9 rooms, and we have used one because Thomas also moved to this room since I 'failed' right.

"They're gathered, aren't you coming?" felix Goda.

"Damn it," Ruby grumbled with a pouting face.

"At the same time they don't realize you don't exist" Thomas said.

I don't know what they were talking about with the midnight gathering, suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Just me" Thomas wakes up and opens the door while Ruby hides inside a blanket hugged by Felix.

"What's midnight?" Thomas had an annoyed expression.

"Sorry, we found a woman's body" Poppy said.

Felix pretended to be in deep sleep and did not hear what Poppy had to say. He closed his eyes and held back a laugh.

"Let's talk outside. He's exhausted" Thomas said.

Thomas and Poppy out of the room. They were talking in front of Poppy's room.

"The clothes the woman was wearing were similar to the one you described" Poppy said.

"Maybe similar. I'm not sure Ruby died" Thomas put on a face as if in disbelief.

"Can I see the body?" said Thomas.

"The body's not here?" answer Poppy.

"Where then? The infirmary? Police station? Where was the body found? Can the car pass?" Thomas asked a lot of questions.

"The body is in a safe place. Tomorrow I'll show you" Poppy just said that and didn't answer Thomas' other questions.

"Not at the police station or the hospital? How can you hide someone's body?" Thomas keeps cornered Poppy.

Poppy did not answer and said she only got information from her mother and did not know where the body was.

"Then how do you know the body's in a safe place?" Thomas is raving about Poppy. Just like Ruby, Thomas also likes to lambast his interlocutors with various questions because as a law student he was used to arguing.

"The mother told me. I don't know anything" replied Poppy.

Thomas looked at Poppy sharply and left without saying a word.