The protagonist Li Ming is an investigative reporter who specializes in studying and uncovering mysterious events and supernatural legends that have been circulating in rural areas for a long time. One day, he received an anonymous letter claiming that unsolved horrific truths were hidden in villages across China.
The content of the letter mentioned that in recent years, similar supernatural phenomena have occurred in many villages - the village will fall into a strange silence at night, but there seems to be some invisible force hidden in the silence, taking away the lives of the villagers. Li Ming decided to go deep into each village to investigate.