God Apps

Chapter 1 : The apps that can give anything

 This story takes place in the city of Bandung, a city with various impressive locations to visit. With a lot of beautiful parks, tall buildings, streets decorated with a variety of beautiful urban views, as well as its frenzied atmosphere that is so dynamic. But behind all that, behind the atmosphere of all the tall and luxurious buildings, not everyone has a perfect life, there are various kinds of human life with their respective conditions and problems.

 This story will focus on one man named ‘Agni Iskandar’, he is an expatriate from Garut who has lived in Bandung for 4 and a half years, he is now 26 years old. He works in a textile factory, his daily life is just ordinary as an employee, he leaving early in the morning and returning home in the evening, throughout the week.

 His posture is thin, with a little unkempt hair, and the look on his face is always sleepy. He doesn't have many friends, whereas people close to him will only contact him if they needs help.

 Agni lives in a rented house located in a densely populated settlement, with access to a narrow winding alley. The rented house only has one room, a kitchen and one bathroom, it is still suitable to live in, even though it always smells like sewers, but Agni is used to it.

 He never complained about his life, even though there were many life problems that he had to face and always weighed on his mind, because what was important for him was to be able to live by living his routine as usual, leaving and returning from work with his beloved motorbike, then eating and sleeping.

 When elaborated, his monthly salary is arguably insufficient to eat, because he has many bills to pay. For rent, debt to neighbors, debt to leasing, not to mention every month he also has to send money to the village, for medical expenses for his mother who is often sick.

 All that he must face and live in his life, and there is one life guide that is always held and implanted in Agni's mind, which is "God knows the best for us." Those words can give him encouragement again, although not always.

 That morning, as usual, Agni took out his motorcycle, heated up the engine, to go to work. When Agni was doing that, the neighbor next to his rented house who was a husband and wife suddenly said.

 "Ready to work again huh? You'll bring big money when you come home later." In a teasing tone.

 But Agni just kept quiet and smiled responding to that, because it was normal for him, every day there were always taunts from his neighbors that alluded to Agni's life.

 Then a few moments later, suddenly the landlady came to meet Agni and collect the rent that had been in arrears for one month.

 "Hey Agni, is the rent already available?"

 "Really sorry ma'am, i uses the money for motorcycle service ... I'll pay it next week, ma'am." Agni answered.

 "Hmm ... OK, but you must be sure for it, because I need to pay money for my child school.”

 "Yes ma'am, for sure." Said Agni.

 Then without answering, the Landlady immediately turned around and left Agni, while the husband and wife who were next to Agni's house, just chuckled seeing that, while passing into their house.

 Agni could only sigh at the moment, after that he left to go to work and do activities as usual. Every time he went to work, there was a habit that Agni always carried out, that he always bought two packs of rice, one for himself and another for a scavenger that he always met on the edge of the railroad crossing.

 In short, at noon, during recess. Agni contacted a friend and invited him to meet, although it was a little difficult for Agni to invite him to meet, but finally his friend was willing, after Agni said that he would treat him a bowl of meatballs. They will met when it's time for break and rest on Agni's Workplace.

 A few moments later, finally they met at the meatball stall place, where you can order and eat a various of meatballs and noodles. After wait for a long time, they had sit beside each other, Agni's friend was named Haerul, his posture was tall with army short hair, and he always wore a neat shirt wherever he went. Agni invited him to meet to discuss about something.

 Haerul said, "You know, Even though I'm busy, but for your sake, I arrange my schedule to come here ... So, what's up?"

 "Eumm, Rul, it's about ... The investment money that I gave to you at that time, can I take it again? I really need money right now." Ask Agni to Haerul.

 "Eh? ... Eumm, what should I say? No, you can't do that. Everything has procedures, the money is now being processed, you must patient. Later, if the benefits are already available, I will definitely give it to you. "

 "But, now I need money to pay rent."

 "Just borrow the money from your friends then." Haerul said while drinking water.

 "If that's the case, I'll borrow it from you first, okay?" Said Agni.

 Then suddenly Haerul choked on the water he drank, and he coughed, so Agni immediately patted his back so the cough stopped.

 After that Haerul said, "Eumm, now I don't have cash. I also left the atm card at home ... I’m sorry, you just have to borrow it from your friends at the factory. "

 "i had it, I have asked almost everyone in the factory, but they also said that they had many needs, so they could not help."

 "Just be patient ... You like to say, that God knows the best for us, so surely you can find the way." Haerul said.

 "Yea, yea oke." Agni replied, then bowed his head slightly.

 Then Agni returned to his place of work, feeling lethargic and disappointed, saying in his mind, "When he came and explained about the investment business, he was always passionate and easy to find ... But now why are there so many reasons from him??"

 Question after question arose in Agni's mind, but he always tried to give positive answers to those questions. Agni works in the folded section of ready-made clothes, every day he is always dealing with new clothes that he has to fold neatly and then labeled or branded, and he has to do that for hours, while standing up all day. Together with several other employees.

 In his place of work, there is actually a woman that Agni likes. She works in the sewing department. That woman is arguably the most beautiful woman, who has always been the center of attention there. Many men are always trying to approach her and want to be her partner, and so is Agni. But Agni only always saw her from a distance, because he did not dare to interact further with her. He always felt that he did not deserve to be able to get such a beautiful woman.

 Unfortunately Agni is right, because it turns out, the only one who can get such a beautiful woman is the most handsome man there, who has a high enough position, and a vehicle that can take you going from 0 to tens of miles per hour, in just a few seconds. Every day, Agni sees her being accompanied by a man who meets these criteria, and that makes Agni even more discouraged.

 In the afternoon, Agni returned to his rented house, he looked very tired and wanted to get some rest, after a day of work. However, he had just sat for a few minutes, but suddenly his door was knocked and someone told him to get out.

 When Agni opened the door, it turned out that two large, grim-faced men were standing outside his house, and it seemed they would not give good news to Agni. A few moments later, it was true. They both came from a lease where Agni pawned his owner certificate of motorcycle.

 One of the men asked Agni, "Mister Agni, now what Would you do? When are you going to pay? it's been a month too late, you know. "

 Agni immediately felt confused and did not know what to say, as a result of his investment with Haerul not going so well, now a number of problems began to appear to Agni, from the arrears of rent for couple bills, to the arrears of his motorbike owner certificate installments, thus making Agni confused and at the same time he feel anxious too.

 In short, after talking at length, the man gave a payment deadline to Agni, and if Agni could not pay as well, then his motorbike will be taken later. It sure make Agni Relieved a little, but the guilty and anxious feeling still haunted on his mind. Then, in short, those debt collector left Agni's house.

 After that incident, Agni sighed again, then he immediately fell down on his bed and daydream about the various problems that are now burdening him, plus his mother's condition in the village which is currently not good. This made Agni sadder because he felt that he could not do anything and did not know what to do, but he did not immediately fall on despair, he still remained positive thinking that God must have prepared the best for him.

 Then he immediately take a bath on that night. A few moments later, when it was time for Agni to sleep, suddenly he was shocked by the sound of very loud music, from the direction of his neighbor's house, that is a husband and wife next door. They always play music with active speakers loudly at night, with reasons for entertainment. And Agni, who was very disturbed by that, could not say anything because he did not want to have problems with other people. So, every night, Agni always finds it difficult to sleep well, so thats why his face always looks like a sleepy person.

 The day passed. In the morning, Agni returned to his usual routine, got a neighbor's teasing, bought two packs of rice, and worked all day long. But on that day something was different. Suddenly Agni's supervisor summoned himself and other employees to come to the supervisor's office.

 Then the Supervisor began to speak to provide information to them, that is. "Gentlemen, as we know, our factory is currently getting a large number of orders, so the company has decided to increase working hours, and give more overtime payment to those who are called here right now, so my question is, Are you willing to do it? "

 Then, without thinking, Agni and his colleagues immediately agreed to it, because it was a golden opportunity for them to be able to get more income. So that Agni has a slight of hope to pay all his bills.

 So from now on, they have to leave for work from 6am, and go home at 9pm, and the wages from the extra hours will be calculated into overtime, with a pretty good nominal, which makes Agni feel happy at the same time excited, because at the beginning of the month later, he can finally pay all his arrears, with the overtime payment that he struggle the most, from week to week.

 Day after day Agni went through hard work, and was earnest in completing each of his tasks, even though he was tired, and lacked rest, he continued to work hard without regard to pain, even though his body felt unwell. But with all his enthusiasm he went through, in order to be able to fulfill his obligations to pay debts and make ends meet. And of course the most important thing is sending money to his mother in the village.

 In short, after payday arrived. Agni came to the workplace as usual, he worked as usual and did not feel anything odd at all, he waited patiently for his salary to be distributed, until finally an announcement appeared like lightning in broad daylight.

 The contents of the announcement is, a statement that the distribution of wages for a while will be delayed until an undetermined deadline.

 That of course made most of the factory workers angry, all the employees did not accept the anouncement of that delayed payment, and they finally decided to demonstrate. There are very disappointed, sad, raging, and others, the atmosphere there is really chaotic.

 As for Agni, he just gawked while continuing to pay attention to the announcement board. He did not know what to do and what else to be done, his body felt weak and tired. After all the hard work he had put in, apparently the results were uncertain, while the burden that was chasing him was approaching nearly and will choke him soon enough.

 After day becomes night, he returned home with a shortness of breath, thoughts that seemed to spin, and a discomfort in the stomach so that made him vomit and then felt feverish throughout his body. It makes him felt shattered on a whole body.

 At night, he only ate a piece of bread and drank a glass of water accompanied by medicine stalls, because his finances were already very thin, he even had to think twice about getting treatment, so he decided not to seek treatment. Besides that, another thing that was weighing on his mind right now was, the bills that would soon come to him and continue to haunt him.

 The feeling that he was experiencing right now could not be explained in words, he felt disappointed, angry, sad, confused, and anxious. But he could not do anything about it, all he could do was sob, while listening to dangdut music playing loudly from his neighbor's house.

 Days passed, but there was still no news about the salaries of employees in arrears by the company. There are always many reasons put forward by superiors, from trivial reasons to unreasonable ones. Making employees more agitated, after day passed, Agni returned home weary and in a chaotic mood.

 At that time there were no more positive thoughts in his brain, he was feeling tired and wanted to immediately end his life right there and right now. He was not strong enough to face the facts that were always disappointing for him, and he wanted to be able to immediately stop his suffering and escape from this life. Although he himself also knew, that suicide would not solve the problem, and would instead give him even more severe torture for him, but he doesn't want to care about that anymore. All he want is just escape immediately from this life.

 He quickly took a sheet of cloth, then wrapped around and lengthening it, for then he hooked it to the ceiling of his rented house. He intends to die by hanging himself.

 But whether the life he had was only torture for him, of course not. Because God impossible to hurt his servant, that was what crossed his mind when he was about to end his life, so that made Agni doubt when he would hang himself a little longer.

 Agni began to cry and regret, love from God to him far more than anything in this world, it's just that humans are always focused on the problem compared to the favor of God.

 Then a few seconds when Agni began to hesitate and intend to undo these actions, suddenly his cellphone vibrated and showed a notification. Without thinking, Agni immediately went down and checked the notification that reads.

"You have finished downloading the ‘ Finding' application from Playshop."

 "What?? I don't feel like i'd downloading this application? " Agni said wondering.

 Then Agni immediately opens and activates the Application, whose name is "Finding". When Agni opened it, he felt that the application was very similar to the map application, with search fields and information buttons. But to open the search field, he must trade the energy bar for the key on that aplication. Te energy bar seems to fill in maximal condition, so Agni could trade it with 3 key, then get acces to the search field.

 Agni, who felt that he already had such a map application, immediately decided to delete the application from his cellphone, but when he tried it, he could not, as if the application refused to be removed.

 Then suddenly there is a notification from the Finding application, which reads, "Try searching for the place you want to go to right now."

 So Agni thought for a while, then he was shocked by the sound of his stomach feeling hungry, but when he saw the contents of his wallet, the money was only enough to eat for two days, and given that the wage schedule from the factory was still uncertain, then that meant he had to downsize.

 So he just casually use 1 of the 3 key to open the search field on that application, then he typed a few words in the Finding application's search field.

 "The cheapest place to eat."

 So immediately, the pin on the map in the Finding application starts showing a location point, which is located not far from where Agni is currently at the moment. The application also shows photos of the place, and information about the place, which sells cheap fried rice.

 Agni had a sigh, then he immediately got ready to go to the location indicated by the application. Because at that time he felt very hungry and wanted to eat. With his motorcycle, Agni set off along the glorious urban atmosphere that night, with a feeling that still left a tightness in his heart.

 When Agni arrived at the fried rice seller shown by the Finding Application, Agni immediately sat down and ordered 1 portion of fried rice, then briefly told him that he had finished eat the food and was ready to pay, but how shocked he was when he had to pay only 7 thousand Rupiah, although the portion he had eat was large, but it's much cheaper than the price of fried rice in general.

 Then Agni asked why the price could be that cheap, and the merchant replied that he was currently feeling grateful that his child had recovered from illness, so specifically for today, the price of fried rice that he sold was cheaper than usual. The merchant spoke to Agni with a smile, and expressed gratitude on his face.

 After that, Agni went home to sleep. On the trip, he said in his mind, "Wow, this app can show you where to eat, which is being discounted, even though it's not a big and famous dining place. Not bad." Agni still considers the application trivial, and doesn't feel any discrepancy.

 The next day, Agni who still feeling anxious because of multiple problem he had, still always tried to contact Haerul, but his call was never picked up, which made Agni upset and frustrated. In addition, rent bills and the repayment due dates are also getting closer and closer, making Agni even more confused. In the afternoon, when the heavy rain had just subsided. Agni intends to put his motorbike into the house, then he discovers that the gutters on his porch are leaking, thus making a large puddle on his porch, so he decides to go buy paralon glue to the building shop.

 There were no significant obstacles when he left and bought the glue from a building shop, but when he was about to approach his motorbike to go back home, he suddenly felt surprised, because the motorcycle that had been parked near the building shop, was already gone with no trace at all.

 That immediately made Agni confused and worried, he looked in all directions, while gasping and scratching his head, then with his whole body trembling, he tried to ask everyone around there about his motorcycle that had now been lost. But no one knows about it, and they can only come looking for as much as possible around there.

 After the incident, Agni's whole body immediately felt weak so he could not move and just sat quietly in front of the shop, with several people swarming around him and trying to calm him down, also there were some people who told him to report to the police.

 Not long after, Agni, who was struck by a sense of confusion, suddenly got an idea that crossed his mind. He immediately stood up, thanked them, then left in a hurry. Everybody there couldn't stop Agni from leaving. While walking, Agni took out his cellphone, then opened the Finding application to search for his motorcycle. Although he felt that it was a silly thing to do, but he argued that what is wrong with trying?

 He immediately use 1 from 2 remaining key to wrote in the search field on Finding application, "My motorbike."

 Right after he clicks the search button, suddenly the pin just points to a place that is quite far from where Agni is currently, but that location can be reached by taking public transportation.

 Agni, who seemed to rush, did not fully believe what was shown by the Finding application, but he hadn't much choice, so without thinking, he immediately went to that location. The time had begun to enter the evening. Agni enters a densely populated residential area which is more or less the same as his neighborhood. While walking fast, he kept looking at his cellphone screen to see if he was close to his destination or not. Until finally he managed to get to where he was going, namely a house with an iron fence and there are several motorcycles that are parked on the terrace outside the house. From the outside, the atmosphere inside the house sounded quite crowded, by the laughter of the men who were playing cards.

 Then Agni was shocked when he found that his motorcycle was indeed parked on the terrace of the house, that make Agni more sure, all the men in the house is bunch of motorcycle thief. So without lingering any longer, Agni immediately entered there, first of all he shifted the fence very slowly while continuing to pay attention to the situation around. The action at that time really resembled a thief who was in action entering a resident's house.

 While sneaking up Agni walked over to his motorcycle, he was very careful to turn and guide the motorbike out of the house, without making any noise, because he was afraid of being caught and then yelled to be a thief.

 Fortunately Agni's actions went smoothly, and he was able to bring his motorcycle back home, despite damage to the ignition. He did not care what happened to the motorcycle thief after their stolen object was captured again, because the most important thing was, Agni could get his motorcycle again.

 Then when Agni was at his house, he sat and stunned, watching the Finding application on his cellphone, he felt amazed and did not believe what had just happened. It turns out that the Finding application can be used to search for anything he wants to find, and that of course is a very unusual thing for him. He think that he had received a miracle from God, in the form of an Application.

 Then at that time, he was surprised by the sound of a phone call from a debt collector number that had filled his call box but was not picked up. So immediately, in his mind he began to have an intention to use the application Finding, as a means of finding easy money for him.

 He began to use the 1 last key, to open and start writing in the search field, he wrote carefully "Large amount of money."

 And immediately, the location pin starts searching and then points to a location wich Agni mean. Which is located on the streets of Lembang. Wich is an area located in the highlands of the Bandung city, and it's far away enough from Agni's home. But he still determined to go there.

 At night, without thinking, Agni immediately put on his jacket and helmet, to go to the location indicated by the Finding application. He passed the glorious urban atmosphere, until finally he arrived in the Lembang area which was filled with lots of vast land, and dense trees. Agni continues driving along with his motorcycle, he ride along the way, accompanied by the dark night sky and the cold air ont that time. After he arrive on the point of destination, he stopped and then climbed down his motorbike, to start looking for items that he wrote in the finding application column.

 He walked into the bushes, and examined the gutters around there but he still hadn't found anything or the item he was looking for. At that moment, he had doubts and began to think that there was no way he could find the item he was type on application search field, but with the prove that he can get back his motorcyle from the thief, wich is impossible, then he feel much more believing on the Finding Aplication. He keep looking all night on that place, Until finally, he found something that was hidden behind a tree on the side of the road. That is, a black bag stays there without anyone guarding it.

 Instantly, Agni looked in all directions to ensure that there was no one there. Then after making sure the condition was safe, Agni immediately approached and opened the bag to see what was inside.

 How surprised Agni when he saw the contents of the bag, which turned out to be a pile of so much money. Then he was so shocked. It even made Agni fall back because his knees felt weak, and his whole body immediately shook violently, that cause him to almost lost consciousness.

 He really felt surprised and amazed at the sight of the pile of money. Then without lingering any longer, Agni immediately took and brought the bag with him, to be brought home. He held the bag on his lap, while riding his motorcycle.

 On that night, Agni's trip to his house was felt to be very short like a hallucination, with a feeling as if it was hovering, so he was glad that he felt like he had just gotten a Jackpot. That ride just feels like flying over the clouds and wading the vast blue sky. Although its already night.

 When he got home, Agni immediately took out all the money and put it on the bed, so that now his bed was filled with a lot of money. Then Agni sat down and hung limp while continuing to pay attention to the money, he sat with the tremble condition for a while, then he smiled and said a couple of word to himself as if its the Real turning point.

 "... Wow Fantastic Baby."