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.

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

the area with her binoculars, she searched for any blind spots

gaze landed on a cluster of trees in the distance,

branches, her heart felt as though it

central tree, obscured by its girth and the leaves floating around, making

enough to take a

above and then plunged into the water

in the seawater,

heart ached terribly as she steeled herself and yanked the object from

was unconscious and his body

difficulty, Maja dragged him onto the lifeboat and

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

reached the hospital corridor when

had passed, and she could hear Beck speaking somewhere

someone, "So, has

was devastated by the blast. The explosives were buried there long

everyone. Less than twenty locals survived. We also discovered

reduced to ruins and sunk silently into the

why not just trigger the

trouble of detonating bombs?

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

but were stopped. We wanted to bring her back, but she won't leave the chamber. She faces the wall, her eyes wrapped

blind, possibly someone

she leave

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

he noticed

waved the informant away and

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

her, his eyes

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

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