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

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

landed on a cluster of trees in the

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

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

cclose enough to take

into the water with a splash, determined to bring

diluting in the seawater, the

herself and yanked the

unconscious and his body

him onto the

and a team rushed lan to

had barely reached the hospital corridor

and she

has the

by the blast. The explosives were buried there long

locals survived. We

the island would have been reduced

gone, why not just trigger

trouble of detonating bombs?

we also found a peculiar underground chamber with a woman

to bring her back, but she won't leave the chamber.

blind, possibly

she leave the

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

he noticed

informant away

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

his eyes and brow

emergency signal from the

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