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Out of curiosity, I set out to Bundowoso--, the legendary place of origin, a small town in the humid western plateau. A local driver named Sugiono took me on a winding mountain road to the civet's habitat. The terrain rose slowly, and the small village along the road looked bustling and busy. As the climate on the mountain gets cooler, the verdant rice fields on the plain gradually transform into plantations with high vegetation. Soon after, we arrived at Pos Malabar, a small border check station. I looked at the distance, and the broken outline was obviously the pass of a huge volcano, blocking most of the sky. The rich green of the coffee forest goes all the way along the rolling mountains until the green fades into the far end of the fog.

I decided to go around the mountain and look for the shadow of the civet. We walked along the winding path. All the way is a vast coffee garden, occasionally dotted with cabbage and onions. The skinny workers were working in the coffee garden and the dirty sheep were in a daze by the side of the road. Enter the national park from Pal Tuding and climb two miles to reach the crater of Kawah Ijen.

It was a tiring journey, but 90 minutes later, the road suddenly became flat and the earth suddenly opened a great panoramic picture. The blue Kawah Ijen lake shines hundreds of feet below. The exposed volcanic rocks are mottled green, brown and yellow due to the deposition of sulfur and moss. This great bird's-eye view looms from time to time as the clouds come and go and the sulfur smoke rises. If there is enough courage, there is still a narrow and steep road on the rock face to East Java by the lake. The forest has been heavily deforested, and the civets' natural habitat has been destroyed, so the number is becoming less and less. Civet cats come and go freely in the orchard, eating not only coffee fruits, but also other fruits, some more aggressive civets, and even attacking farmers' fat chickens. And according to photos of civets posted at the Rollaas Cafe, their sharp claws and size look rather scary, not at all the cuteness of an ordinary cat. What's more, their meat is delicious, and Indonesian farmers rely on rubber and coffee beans with an annual income of only $600. They would rather eat the civet than let the cat eat the crops. Nowadays, with the exception of a few old people, no one goes out to look for coffee beans in their feces. Even if it is found, it is hardly sold.

Therefore, we can only collect civet droppings that are kept in captivity in secret locations. They are well-off, surrounded by coffee fruits, grapes, and fresh milk. Eat hard all day long and pull diligently. Canadian scientists have also invented electric mirrors to look for traces of feces on coffee beans to tell if the beans have passed through the digestive tract. As for the supreme wild civet coffee, it may have become extinct forever, like countless species that have disappeared from the earth.