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092 - When Love Comes Too Late
Author: Rytir
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The next day, in the afternoon, Jack visits that housing complex. He observes that area from a distance by staying in the woods, like he is spying on the enemy.

He even makes a simple map, and then marks each point where they installed the floodlights. He goes around the place, just to find a spot that he could exploit. Until he gets to the area behind Arifin’s house, and finds so many people there.

“Is this the spot Raden told before? Seems like they do concentrate their men here. They even make some camps around this area.”

He goes a bit further to the uphill, so that he can observe the activity inside that housing complex. There he finds that most of the residents' activities are focused on the south, and the east part where Arifin’s house is located.

The gate is on the west with a few armed guards watching over that area. The block in the north part looks so quiet, because indeed the house in that area is mostly unoccupied.

He watches people in and out of certain houses. As he kee
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