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 pilots to keep

and scanned the area with her binoculars, she searched for

on a cluster of trees in the distance, and without hesitation, she rowed towards

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

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

to take a careful

into

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

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

unconscious and his body was

difficulty, Maja dragged him onto the lifeboat and rowed

helicopter swiftly landed, and a team rushed

had barely reached the hospital corridor

had passed, and she could hear Beck speaking somewhere

was asking someone, "So, has

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

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

activated, the island would have been reduced to ruins

island gone, why not just trigger

trouble of detonating bombs?

we also found a peculiar underground chamber with a

to bring her back, but she won't

bandages—probably blind, possibly

can't she

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

Beck could respond, he noticed Maja

informant away

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

her, his eyes

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

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