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

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

trees in the distance, and without hesitation, she

her heart felt as though it

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

enough to take a

into the water with a splash, determined to

caught on something, blood diluting in the seawater, the wound

terribly as she steeled herself and yanked the object

and his

dragged him onto the lifeboat and rowed towards the

swiftly landed, and a team rushed lan to a major

barely reached the hospital corridor when she passed

passed, and she

was asking someone, "So, has the

covered it. The island was devastated by the blast. The explosives were

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

have been reduced to ruins and sunk

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

trouble of detonating bombs?

Sanders, we also found a peculiar underground chamber with a woman inside. Several

she won't leave the chamber.

possibly

she

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

Beck could respond, he noticed Maja waking

waved the informant away and turned

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

his eyes

emergency signal from the island. Beck had

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