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.

couldn't stop her, so he simply spoke into his walkie-talkie, asking the chopper pilots to

scanned the area with her binoculars, she searched for any blind spots

in the distance,

the person sprawled among the branches, her heart felt as though it

by its girth and the

enough to take a

the helicopter above and then plunged into the

blood diluting in the

as she steeled herself and yanked the object

and

him onto the lifeboat and rowed towards the larger

the helicopter swiftly landed, and a team rushed lan to a major

the hospital corridor when she

she cto, two days had passed, and she could hear

"So, has the island been

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

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

reduced

why not just trigger the self-destruct instead of

trouble of detonating bombs?

chamber with a woman inside.

but she won't leave the chamber. She

blind, possibly

she leave

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

he noticed

away and

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

her, his eyes and brow etched with

receiving lan's emergency signal

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