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.

into his walkie-talkie, asking the chopper

rowed and scanned the area with her binoculars, she searched for any blind spots that others might have

on a cluster of trees in the

among the branches, her heart felt as though

and the leaves floating around, making

cclose enough to take

and then plunged into the water with a splash,

in the seawater, the wound sickeningly pale from

heart ached terribly as she steeled herself and yanked

and

Maja dragged him onto the lifeboat and rowed

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

had barely reached the hospital corridor

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

was asking someone, "So, has the island

two days, we've covered it. The island was devastated by the blast. The explosives were buried there long

twenty locals survived. We also discovered a self-destruct

activated, the island would have been reduced to ruins and sunk silently

an eyebrow. If someone wanted 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

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

blind, possibly someone

she leave

door, we're hit by an electric shock. We need the

could respond, he

waved the informant away and

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

her, his eyes

worn out, especially since receiving lan's emergency signal from the

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