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Right after regrouping with Cloe and the others, the group quickly followed after Chief Harold without delay. They already spent quite a lot of time on this quest after all, so they at least needed to move as fast as they could.
Not long after, they were led in front of a ruined house within the village. What surprising about it was the very house right beside it was the one where Ithilien discovered some signs of human activity before.
Seeing that the group was looking at the other house, the village chief suddenly explained. "It a form of code to contact with each other. We are lighting up the stove there whenever we are going back to the main base or every time someone is planning to visit us."
"As you can see, we can no longer live in these houses because we are continuously being attacked by those monsters."