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.

he simply spoke into his walkie-talkie, asking the chopper pilots to keep an eye

scanned the area with her binoculars, she searched

trees in

the branches, her heart felt as though it had

girth and the leaves floating around, making him invisible from the air

cclose enough to take a careful

into

his arm was caught on something, blood diluting in the seawater, the wound sickeningly pale from being

herself and yanked the object from his

and his body

the lifeboat and

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

had barely reached the hospital corridor

had passed, and she could hear Beck speaking somewhere

"So, has

devastated by the

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

would have been reduced to ruins and sunk silently into

someone wanted the island gone, why not just trigger

trouble of detonating bombs?

a peculiar underground chamber with a woman inside. Several groups tried to approach

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

blind, possibly someone

can't she leave the

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

he noticed Maja waking

informant away and turned to

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

his eyes

lan's emergency signal

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255