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.

simply spoke into his walkie-talkie, asking the chopper

the area with her binoculars, she searched for

gaze landed on a cluster of trees in the distance, and

her heart felt as though it had been torn

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

someone cclose enough to

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

caught on something, blood diluting in the seawater, the wound

heart ached terribly as she steeled herself and yanked the object from

unconscious and

onto the lifeboat

a team rushed lan to a

the hospital corridor when she passed

and she could hear Beck

"So, has

it. The island was devastated by the blast. The explosives were buried there

to wipe out everyone. Less than twenty locals survived. We also discovered a self-destruct mechanism in a hidden

would have been reduced to ruins and sunk

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

trouble of detonating bombs?

also found a peculiar underground chamber with a woman

her back, but she won't leave

bandages—probably blind, possibly

she leave the

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

he noticed Maja

away and turned

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

his eyes

since receiving lan's emergency signal from

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