Red Soil Dating

As living red soil engulfs the city, four strangers are trapped in a strange, interconnected space. Engineers discovered that the air holes in the wall actually coincided with the starry sky pointed out by the missing daughter. Firefighters found traces of his wife's blood in gears. Biologists cultivated red slime mold that can remember. Scavengers heard the warnings of their late fathers from black oil. "Seven revolutions of the gear will cause the star to break into parts." They must decipher the code of the red maze and rescue their devoured relatives before they are completely assimilated. But the red soil itself seems to be an ancient machine that feeds its gears with human emotions... (Suspense + emotional redemption, suitable for readers who like "Annihilation")