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 eye on her

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

a cluster of trees in the distance,

her heart felt as though it

girth and the leaves floating around, making him

cclose enough to take a careful

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

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

terribly as she steeled herself and yanked the

and his body was

difficulty, Maja dragged him onto the lifeboat and

helicopter swiftly landed, and a team

had barely reached the hospital

days had passed, and she

someone, "So, has the

two days, we've covered it. The island was devastated by the

than twenty locals survived. We

have been reduced to ruins and sunk silently into the

island gone, why not just trigger the self-destruct instead of going through

trouble of detonating bombs?

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

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

possibly someone of

she leave the

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

he noticed

informant away and turned to

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

approached her, his eyes and brow etched

receiving lan's emergency

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