In 2637, the Earth Federation received a incomplete distress signal from the purple smoke star, a planet that had been lost for a century. Captain Zhao Qifeng led the team to search and rescue the missing No. 6 Advance team.
Purple Smoke Star's various indicators are suitable for survival, but there is strong electromagnetic interference. On the way, an ionization storm split the team apart. Zhao Qifeng made an emergency landing on the surface, while An Duping led the team to stay behind at the abandoned space station in orbit. The two sides were isolated for five years before communication was restored.
The surface is covered with docile lavender plants, but the space station is entangled with giant black mycelium. The two are actually the same alien symbiotic organism. An Duping concealed the truth: There is a spherical mother body under the planet that controls the entire flora. The scattered spores will parasitize the human body and disintegrate the internal organs. The forty-two scientific expedition team members a hundred years ago have been decomposed by hyphae.
After communications were exchanged, camp team members began to develop infection symptoms such as coughing up blood and organ failure, and some people continued to die. Zhao Qifeng led the team deep into the underground tiankeng and saw the giant matrix, which shocked the entire life form when taking samples. Mycelium grows crazily across the entire territory, spores spread everywhere, and the camp is on the verge of collapse.
An Duping confessed before his death that this kind of creature has a collective consciousness and is extremely difficult to eradicate. Human beings who set foot on the planet will eventually become nutrients. Zhao Qifeng assembled the infected team members to form a death squad, and returned to the underground with explosive weapons, hoping to destroy the mother body and end the disaster. In the end, all members were parasitic and destroyed.
At the end of the story, the Purple Smoke Star sends out false livable information, and a large number of immigrant spaceships rush here. The cycle of devouring human beings will be repeated forever, satirizing the greed of human beings to blindly open up new lands. In 2637, the Earth Federation received a incomplete distress signal from the purple smoke star, a planet that had been lost for a century. Captain Zhao Qifeng led the team to