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

area with her binoculars, she searched for any blind spots that others might have

on a cluster of trees in the distance, and

the person sprawled among the branches, her heart

and the leaves floating

cclose enough to take

plunged into the water

caught on something, blood diluting in the seawater, the wound sickeningly pale from being

ached terribly as she steeled herself

and his

difficulty, Maja dragged him onto the lifeboat and rowed towards the

landed, and a team rushed lan to

barely reached the hospital corridor when she passed

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

was asking someone, "So, has the island

it. The island was devastated by the blast. The explosives were buried there long ago,

twenty locals survived. We also

the island would have been reduced to ruins

gone, why not

trouble of detonating bombs?

a peculiar underground chamber with a woman

she won't leave the chamber. She faces the

possibly

she leave

get near the only door, we're hit by an electric shock. We need the chamber's blueprints to

Beck could respond, he noticed Maja waking

the informant away and

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

eyes and brow etched

was worn out, especially since receiving lan's emergency signal from the island. Beck

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