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.

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

area with her binoculars, she searched

landed on a cluster of trees in

sprawled among the branches, her heart felt as though

tree, obscured by its girth and the

enough to take a careful

then plunged into the water with a splash, determined to bring lan

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

steeled herself and yanked the object from his

unconscious and his body was

dragged him onto the lifeboat

a team

barely reached the hospital corridor when

and she could hear Beck speaking somewhere close

was asking someone, "So, has

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

survived. We also discovered a self-destruct mechanism in

would have been reduced to ruins and sunk silently into the

eyebrow. If someone wanted the island gone, why not just trigger

trouble of detonating bombs?

underground chamber with a woman inside. Several groups tried to

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

possibly

she leave the

we're hit by an electric shock. We need the chamber's blueprints to unravel

Beck could respond, he noticed Maja waking

waved the informant away and

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

approached her, his eyes and brow etched

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

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