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.

so he simply spoke into his walkie-talkie, asking the chopper pilots to keep an eye

binoculars, she searched

landed on a cluster of trees in the distance, and without hesitation, she

her

and the

enough to take

signaled to the helicopter above and then plunged into the water

blood diluting in the seawater, the wound

herself and

unconscious and his

dragged him onto the lifeboat and rowed

helicopter swiftly landed, and a team rushed lan to

had barely reached the hospital corridor when she

cto, two days had passed, and

someone, "So, has the island been thoroughly

island was devastated by the

to wipe out everyone. Less than twenty locals survived. We

have been reduced to ruins and sunk

eyebrow. If someone wanted the island gone, why

trouble of detonating bombs?

found a peculiar underground chamber with a woman inside. Several groups tried to approach

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

bandages—probably blind, possibly

can't she leave the

hit by an electric

Beck could respond, he noticed Maja

informant away and turned to

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

approached her, his eyes and brow

receiving lan's emergency signal

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