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

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

cluster of trees in the distance, and without

person sprawled among the branches, her heart felt as

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

someone cclose enough to take a careful

and then plunged into the water with

in the

as she steeled herself and yanked

unconscious and his

him onto the lifeboat and rowed towards the

helicopter swiftly landed, and a team rushed lan to

the hospital corridor when she

and she could hear Beck

was asking someone, "So, has the island

covered it. The island was devastated by the

to wipe out everyone. Less than twenty locals survived. We also discovered a self-destruct mechanism in a hidden

been reduced to ruins and

island gone, why not just

trouble of detonating bombs?

chamber with a woman inside.

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

blind, possibly someone of

can't she

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

respond, he noticed

the informant away and turned to

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

approached her, his eyes and brow etched with

was worn out, especially since receiving lan's emergency signal from the island. Beck had

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