In 2749 AD, the human-led "Star Bridge Project" had laid more than a hundred space jump ports in the Milky Way, but it encountered an unprecedented crisis in the "Blue Star Region" on the edge of the Kuiper Belt. Three scientific research ships responsible for exploring dark matter lost contact one after another. In the final image transmitted back, there was only a distorted purple nebula and a repeated string of binary codes: "He is awakening."
As the chief engineer of the "Star Bridge Project", Lin Ye's sister Lin Xi is the captain of the third scientific research ship. In order to find his sister and uncover the secrets of the Youlan Star Region, he volunteered to join the rescue team. However, he encountered space turbulence during the jump and was forced to land on a desolate planet outside the map. The place is dotted with giant stone statues that are highly similar to ancient civilizations on Earth. There are also "stardust crystals" that can swallow energy buried in the underground rock formations. What's even weirder is that the planet's rotation period is completely synchronized with human biological rhythms.
As the team members disappeared one after another and the energy fluctuations of the stardust crystals became more intense, Lin Ye discovered that the planet was not naturally formed, but a "cage" built by an alien civilization. The true meaning of that string of binary codes points to an interstellar consciousness that has been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years. It was once the "Guardian of Order" of the universe, but was sealed here due to loss of control. Humanity's dark matter exploration happened to be the key to awakening it.
When the purple nebula in the Blue Star region begins to swallow up the surrounding jump ports, and when the survival of human civilization and the life of his sister are in dilemma, Lin Ye must make a choice between "destroying the cage" and "accepting his consciousness." He gradually understood that the so-called "crisis"
