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

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

of trees in

she finally saw the person sprawled among the branches, her heart felt as though it had

by its girth and the leaves floating around, making

to take

the helicopter above and then plunged into the

something, blood diluting in the seawater, the

ached terribly as she steeled herself and yanked the

and his body

difficulty, Maja dragged him onto the lifeboat and

helicopter swiftly landed, and a team rushed lan to

had barely reached the hospital corridor when she

and she could

"So, has the island been thoroughly

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

everyone. Less than twenty locals survived.

the island would have been reduced to ruins and sunk silently into the

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

trouble of detonating bombs?

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

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

bandages—probably blind, possibly someone

can't she leave

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

Beck could respond, he

waved the informant away and turned to

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

his eyes and brow

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

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