Crossing the Sea on a Desolate Road

In the countryside of Dongting in the 1980s, farmer Lin Shoutian was trapped in a poor family in Susukian all his life. His mother was chronically ill and his younger brother was studying. There was no hope for his life. Zhao Ye, a young boy, brought back a lot of overseas dreams from Guangzhou, falsely claiming that there was money all over Europe and the United States, and that he had no worries about food and clothing. Under the temptation, Lin Shoutian, who had no choice but to gamble all his wealth, sold his cattle and borrowed loan sharks, and the two embarked on the road of smuggling and fleeing together. The two traveled thousands of miles south, passed through rounds of interrogations on green trains, and crossed the treacherous Lingding Ocean at night. They narrowly escaped death and landed in Hong Kong, only to find that the paradise outside the country was just a bubble. The gangsters could only survive by hiding in shanty towns in the mountains. They were bullied by local gangsters and had all their savings stolen. In desperation, they listened to the black intermediary's words and hid on an ocean-going freighter with the plan of heading to Europe. Unexpectedly, they were tricked and accidentally ended up in Guinea, a war-torn and malaria-ridden West Africa. In order to survive, the two were forced to go deep into the boundless primeval tropical rainforest. They got lost in the jungle, faced raging bison, and were stalked by leopards while walking at night, surrounded by poisonous insects and beasts. They accidentally broke into an isolated cannibal tribe and encountered wild sacrificial customs. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.