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.

walkie-talkie, asking

the area with her binoculars, she searched for any

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

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

obscured by its girth and the leaves floating around, making

cclose enough to take a

and then plunged into the

on something, blood diluting in the seawater, the wound sickeningly pale from

herself and yanked the object from

unconscious and his

Maja dragged him onto the

landed, and a team rushed lan to a

had barely reached the hospital corridor when

cto, two days had passed, and she could

asking someone, "So, has

island was devastated by the

everyone. Less than twenty locals survived. We also discovered

island would have been reduced to ruins and sunk

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

trouble of detonating bombs?

chamber with a woman inside. Several groups tried to approach

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

blind, possibly someone

can't she leave

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

he noticed Maja waking

away and turned to

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

eyes

emergency signal

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