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.

he simply spoke into his walkie-talkie, asking the chopper pilots

her binoculars, she searched for any blind spots that

in the distance, and without hesitation, she

sprawled among the branches, her heart felt as

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

enough to

helicopter above and then plunged into the water with

diluting in the seawater, the wound sickeningly pale from being

she steeled herself and yanked

unconscious and

dragged him onto the

landed, and a team rushed lan

barely reached the hospital corridor when she passed

days had passed, and she could hear Beck

someone, "So, has

it. The island was devastated by the blast. The explosives

twenty locals survived. We also discovered a self-destruct mechanism in a hidden

been reduced to ruins and sunk silently into

someone wanted the island gone, why not

trouble of detonating bombs?

a peculiar underground chamber with a woman inside. Several groups tried

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

bandages—probably blind, possibly someone of

she

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

could respond, he

away and turned

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

her, his eyes and

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

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