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.

walkie-talkie, asking the chopper pilots to keep an

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

a cluster of trees in the distance, and without

the person sprawled among the branches, her heart felt as

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

to take a careful

above and then plunged into the water

on something, blood diluting in the seawater,

terribly as she steeled herself and yanked the object from

unconscious and his body was

dragged him onto the lifeboat and rowed towards the

a team rushed lan to a major

the hospital corridor when she passed

passed, and she could hear

someone, "So, has the island been

we've covered it. The island was devastated by the blast. The explosives were buried there

twenty locals survived. We also discovered

island would have been reduced to ruins and sunk silently

gone, why

trouble of detonating bombs?

chamber with a woman

her back, but she won't leave the

possibly someone of

can't she leave the

near the only door, we're hit by an electric shock. We need

he noticed Maja waking

informant away and turned

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

her, his eyes and brow etched with

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

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