CORONAS
8. "EXPERIMENTS" YUVA SAID
Monday, 2 April 2046. The morning before leaving for college, I checked my Life Point count. The total is 12780 days. My Life Point is more than ever because my neighbors who care about me are still happily asking for help from me. I still get a sizable amount of Life Points from them. Sometimes they also ask my mother for help so that my mother also the same ration as me. They are very good neighbors. Most of them know very well about health science. Maybe that's why they have a high sense of empathy. They know very well our situation.
“Ah!” I remember because I remember something. Why haven't you thought about it all this time?
The bottom end of the shirt I was wearing immediately I put it in my pants to tidy it up. I have my hair styled. My hanging backpack immediately grabbed me and I stepped out of the room. In front of the porch, I immediately put on a pair of dark brown shoes. I locked the door and I went to college. I can't wait to tell you this. If I take Yuva for some time to stay in this area, I'm sure Yuva can scoop up a bigger Life Point.
Yuva could definitely return to her smile considering that in the past week her face had looked grim. I turned on my motorbike that I had prepared earlier and immediately rolled into campus.
At eight or less five minutes I arrived at the college. My mind seemed to run fast to meet Yuva soon. If today, of course he has prepared in his class. My class is almost starting. I kept my desire to make this good proposal. I have to wait until the break.
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“Yuva! Yuva!” my broom immediately when my eyes managed to find the figure of the woman I was about to meet from this morning.
Yuva turned towards me. I approached him and I caught the number of caldiers on the screen that were changed. Suddenly my mouth shuts. Only last night we did not meet. Sunday, April 1, 2046 we did not date as usual because Yuva wanted to do something alone. But today I was surprised.
“Oh, this?” yuva said while pointing at her caldier. “I helped a few people yesterday alone. And look, my Life Point is growing by leaps and bounds, right? So 160 days now,” he said happily.
I wanted to say something that would make her happy today. But I seem to be missing.
“Well? So what's? Why are you daydreaming?”
His sentence of inquiry disturbed me from my own mind. Then I finally said what I wanted to say. But because it has been cheated, his pleasure has also been cheated. Feels stale. While commenting on the smile, Yuva listened to me for my explanation. He accepted my offer, but not now he said. Then about his increased Life Point that I also asked.
“Decret,” the answer is slow. “I'm doing a little experiment on this. But I can't tell you yet. I'll tell you that I've managed to get a lot of Life Points. It's okay, right?”
Instantly I felt a tremor from behind my pocket. My left palm grabbed it and I saw a call coming in from Arfi.
“Quickly come to Kaldier Center North. There is a small incident going on here,” Arfi said from across the phone.
I said the same thing to Yuva quickly. It didn't take much to say, we both rushed to leave the campus to go to the place in question. When we have arrived there, nine people – reflex I immediately count it – is protesting in the center calendar. Their shouting sounds demanded to refine the Life Point addition system. There were also those who demanded forcibly to request the addition of Life Point directly. One of the people we saw there was someone we knew very well, Aunt Viola.
“Why can this be?” I asked Arfi as soon as my eyes caught the crowd with the sounds of fighting and chasing.
“This is due to the increasing difficulty of getting Life Points from people they have helped. They think there is an error in the caldier system, so they demand system repair. However, the Kaldier itself stated that there was no damage whatsoever,” said Arfi in the midst of the hustle and bustle in this building.
“Indeed there is nothing wrong with the system,” added Yuva casually.
“I just want to live!”
Suddenly there was a very loud scream. That voice belongs to a woman who's taking part in a protest inside here. Aunt Viola. He's right in front of the desk for caldier service. His hands were slammed into the table. His feet also kicked the legs of the tabletop which was coated by a polyester surface. “I have complied with the system according to the procedure as a user kaldier. I have helped and helped many people. But what did I get? 10 Minutes of Life Point? Fifteen minutes? Twenty minutes? What kind of joke are you giving us? Our help is only rewarded with lives of minutes? I'm tired of this kind of Life Point addition? Do you not see the number on my calendar remaining fifteen days? I still have family dependents. What about the fate of my children if I can only live fifteen more days? I can't just take this! I'm asking for a change to this system! Appreciate my efforts! Appreciate my life!”
Aunt Viola's voice was like a sharp razor. Slashing. He screamed until his voice was dull. From his eyelids also poking rows of water points that then fell. He squealed, thrashed, rebelled, and vented all the emotions he had. The normally calm and soothing Kaldier Center turned into panic and despair. The customer servants who served here did not know what to do. They are only assigned tasks according to procedure. They admitted they had contacted the central system but had not received an adequate response.
Aunt Viola's getting on a rampage. He tried to damage the equipment inside this service building. Arfi and I immediately took action to contain his rampage. Our movements are as restrained as we can. Security officers accompanied by service officials also helped stop the rampage of other caldier users who participated in the protests.
“I just want to live .. I just want to live longer for my kids, that's all,” Aunty Viola quipped in an increasingly desperate tone.
