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.

stop 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

gaze landed on a cluster of trees in the distance, and without hesitation, she rowed

person sprawled among the branches, her heart felt as though it had been torn to

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

enough to take a careful

to the helicopter above and then plunged into the water with

diluting in the seawater, the wound sickeningly pale from being

terribly as she steeled herself

and his

dragged him onto the lifeboat

swiftly landed, and a team rushed lan to

barely reached the hospital corridor when she

she cto, two days had passed, and she could hear Beck speaking somewhere close

"So, has the island

devastated by the blast.

out everyone. Less than twenty locals survived. We

have been reduced

why not just trigger

trouble of detonating bombs?

also found a peculiar underground chamber with a woman inside. Several groups tried

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

blind, possibly someone

can't she leave

by an electric

Beck could respond, he noticed

waved the informant away

"Maja, you're awake."

"How's lan?"

"He's still under observation."

her, his eyes and brow

out, especially since receiving lan's emergency signal from the island.

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