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 pilots to keep an eye

she searched for any

cluster of trees in the distance,

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

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

cclose enough to take

to the helicopter above and then plunged into the water with

blood diluting in the seawater, the

herself and yanked the

and his body was

Maja dragged him onto the lifeboat and rowed towards the larger

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

barely reached the hospital corridor when she passed

two days had passed, and

someone, "So, has the island been

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

survived.

have been reduced

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

trouble of detonating bombs?

with a woman inside. Several groups tried to approach her

We wanted to bring her back, but she

possibly someone of

can't she leave the

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

he noticed

away and turned to

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

her, his eyes and brow etched with

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

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