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If you are working, remember that because you have a double chin, don't lower your head when encountering any difficulties. Following the high-scoring works "Train Journey Through India" and "China-Europe Express" on Douban, this is the third train shock! The prosperous and messy Jakarta has a history that has been deliberately avoided; deep in the tropical jungle, buried are Buddhist temples that have been abandoned for thousands of years; Islamic chants echo throughout the sky, but have nothing to do with Javanese civilization; the volcanic town where the crowd dispersed is so beautiful that it is almost melancholy; finally arriving at the powerful Kawaii Jin volcano, the sulfur pickers in hell say that this is the soul of Java. "In Java, after all, I have not discovered absolute things, nor have I discovered anything that is eternal." Liu Zichao, Douban's famous Zen madman, Scorpio, traveler, writer.

Over the past nine years, writer Liu Zichao has traveled deep into the hinterland of Asia several times, to the mysterious neighboring countries - Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan - in this land at the edge of the world and between the great powers, embarking on a journey of searching between the past and the future. Along the way, he meets all kinds of people, wandering between hope and frustration, freedom and loss. Everything is like a deorbiting satellite, ambiguous and lost, full of vitality, loneliness and struggle. We are right next door, but we don't realize it - until the trip starts, until we open this book.