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

with her binoculars, she searched for any blind spots that

in the distance, and without hesitation,

the person sprawled among the branches, her heart felt as though it had been torn to

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

someone cclose enough to

helicopter above and then plunged into the water with a

something, blood diluting in the

as she steeled herself and yanked the object from his

and his

difficulty, Maja dragged him onto the lifeboat and rowed towards

and a team rushed lan to

the hospital corridor when

passed, and she could hear Beck speaking somewhere close

someone, "So, has the

the blast. The explosives were buried there long ago, likely

wipe out everyone. Less than twenty locals survived. We

island would have been reduced to ruins and sunk silently into

an eyebrow. If someone wanted the island gone, why not just trigger the self-destruct instead of going through

trouble of detonating bombs?

chamber with a woman inside.

were stopped. We wanted to bring her back, but she won't leave the

blind, possibly

can't she leave

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

he

away

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

eyes and brow

since receiving lan's emergency signal from the

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