During the East Asian Community's "Shield of Freedom" peacekeeping operation, the troops encountered bizarre events while carrying out their mission on Galan Island. They discovered a village where everyone had been massacred. Its only survivor was a little girl who drew strange symbols. The squad was then disrupted by an unidentified signal, and new recruit Li Zhengxun suddenly lost his mind, claiming he had heard "whispers from beneath the earth." Medic Nguyen Van Thai examined him and suspected he had been exposed to nerve gas. On the way back to base, Wu Qing's sniper rifle somehow rusted and corroded all by itself in the damp conditions. These events hinted at the presence of supernatural forces on Galan Island...
