It takes another fifteen minutes of further hacking through the jungle to gt close to your goal- and in doing so, you find that you have come close to the 'main' track through the jungle, if this overgorwn and barely usable pathway counts as a track.
In a clearing along that track is the source of the fire.
It is a pyre- a huge and tangled heap of corpses, burning gently in the dimming light.
Difficult to see a direct reason, Vlad. The stench from so much burning flesh is abominable- but there is not as much of it as you would have thought.
Closing in a little, you see blackened and twisted metal amongst the pyre as well- artificial limbs.
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There's a fire exit, though it is only meant to open from the inside.