Maja's heart skipped a beat as she sat motionless on the wooden bench of the boat, her eyes staring blankly into the distance.

When Beck boarded the vessel, the first thing he noticed was her faraway gaze.

He immediately walked over and gave her shoulder a gentle pat.

"The sea's chilly, and dawn's breaking soon. You should change out of those wet clothes," he said with a touch of concern.

Maja almost shook her head in refusal, but the first light of dawn was already spreading across the horizon, followed by a shout

that jolted everyone to attention.

"Over here!"

She quickly stood up and made her way towards the commotion.

It wasn't so much that they had found lan, but rather his jacket, aimlessly drifting on the water's surface.

From her vantage point, Maja could see the island's sky, where smoke slowly ascended, hinting at the horrific battle that had raged

the night before.

She withdrew her gaze, ready to plunge into the sea, but Beck stopped her.

"There are plenty of people searching down there. If lan's in the water, he'll be found."

Without a word, Maja grabbed a pair of binoculars and began scouring the sea.

Helicopters buzzed overhead as part of the massive search effort. With such a large-scale operation, even if lan had drifted far, he

should have been found by now.

Maja's brow furrowed as she peered into the deep, vast ocean. Could he have sunk to the bottom?

Ignoring Beck's protests, she insisted on launching a lifeboat to search for lan herself.

his walkie-talkie, asking the chopper pilots to keep an

scanned the area with her binoculars, she

on a cluster of trees in

the person sprawled among the branches, her heart felt as though it had

the central tree, obscured by its girth and the leaves floating around, making him invisible from the air and

someone cclose enough to take a careful

signaled to the helicopter above and then plunged into the water with a splash, determined to

in the seawater,

herself and

was unconscious and

him onto the lifeboat and rowed towards the

helicopter swiftly landed, and a team rushed

the hospital corridor

cto, two days had passed, and she could hear Beck speaking somewhere

was asking someone, "So, has the island been

days, we've covered it. The island was devastated by the

everyone. Less than twenty locals survived.

the island would have been reduced to ruins

the island gone, why not just trigger the self-destruct instead of going through

trouble of detonating bombs?

a woman

wanted to bring her back, but she won't leave the chamber. She faces the wall, her eyes

possibly someone of

can't she

electric shock. We need the chamber's blueprints

respond, he noticed Maja

the informant away

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

approached her, his eyes and brow etched

receiving lan's emergency signal from the island. Beck had felt

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