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.

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

she searched for any blind spots

landed on a cluster of trees in the

branches, her heart felt as though it had been

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

cclose enough to take a

plunged into the water with a splash, determined to bring

on something, blood diluting in the seawater, the

she steeled herself and yanked

and

him onto the lifeboat

swiftly landed, and a team rushed lan to

hospital corridor when

and she could hear

was asking someone, "So, has the

devastated by the blast. The explosives

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

activated, the island would have been reduced

raised an eyebrow. If someone wanted the island gone, why

trouble of detonating bombs?

peculiar underground chamber with a woman inside.

she won't leave the chamber. She faces the wall, her

blind, possibly someone

she

get near the only door, we're hit by an electric shock. We need the chamber's blueprints

respond, he noticed

away and turned

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

his eyes and brow etched

emergency signal from the island.

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