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

rowed and scanned the area with her binoculars, she searched for any blind spots that

in the distance, and

her heart felt as though it had been torn

and the leaves floating

to take

and then plunged into the water with

caught on something, blood diluting in the seawater, the

steeled herself and yanked

and his body

great difficulty, Maja dragged him onto the lifeboat and rowed

helicopter swiftly landed, and a team rushed

the hospital

and she could hear

"So, has the island been

days, we've covered it. The island was devastated by the blast. The

wipe out everyone. Less than twenty locals survived. We

activated, the island would have been reduced to ruins and sunk silently into

island gone, why not just trigger the

trouble of detonating bombs?

peculiar underground chamber with a woman inside. Several

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

bandages—probably blind, possibly

she leave

hit by an electric shock. We

he noticed

informant away and

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

her, his eyes and

emergency signal from the island. Beck had felt

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