What to do?

  Finding a way out, but unable to reach it. Masa Ed became a distraught; he felt like he might cry and curse. It was like there is a force at play willing to keep him trapped in this strange place—some being or something that doesn't want him dead but find delight in his suffering and failures.

  But mulling about his misery and misfortune won't solve his problem. Being practical would.

  "Yes the other boxes."

  Realization dawned on him. He quickly got down from the platform and ran towards where he left the boxes. Strangely he did not think of checking to see if he can open the sarcophagus and take a look at whatever might be inside it.

  But anyways, Masa Ed reached the boxes. He went for the golden box first—the last of the two he is yet to open.

  "I hope there is something useful inside you and not something crazy that will get me killed again."

  His voice echoed. He prayed for fortune before proceeding to open the thoroughly golden box.

  With a soft click, he unlock the box and he did not forget to scramble away from it as fast as he could—he basically put enough distance between him and what might emerge from it. Also, he tightly grip his evil axe, ready to strike a moment notice. But half a minute passed and nothing emerged from the box.

  'What is going on with this box?'

  Confused, gripping his evil axe tightly with both hands, getting it ready to strike, he tiptoed towards the box. He didn't trust there is no ambush or a sudden attack planned from whatever the box holds.

  'Maybe there is nothing in the box.' He thought, a plausible conclusion giving how super silent and unreactive this one box is if compared to the previous two that opened on their own after he unlocked them.

  Anyways, with a fearless heart, something his action of slaying the giant snake solidifies, he neared the box, but as he opened its top with his left leg, tapping its edge, in a fluid motion, he suddenly arched his back as fast and as much as he could, barely dodging a golden strike from the box—what he knows after realizing he dodged a sneak attack. But that was not all, for in the next instant, from the arched stance he maintained, he quickly went down on his back, falling and dropping his evil axe, barely dodging yet again another golden strike from the end of a golden chain twisting and turning midair like a snake.

  "Fuck!" Masa Ed yelled. Yet again, he rolled on the floor, barely dodging the end of the long golden chain that emerged from the golden box with its other end still inside it. But he didn't stop rolling; he barely avoid the chain mercilessly hitting the ground repeatedly because it failed to hit him each time, getting a great amount of glowing sand dust in the air in the process.

  However, Masa Ed was not just rolling in an arc on the glowing white sand just to dodge its persistent strike, as he neared the golden box, he quickly grabbed the chain at where it emerged from the box tightly, but as he was about to dodge its next strike he expected, he noticed it suddenly became inactive—its lively end that was supposed to strike him fell to the ground. It was like the chain became lifeless.

  "What's this guy up to?" Like holding a snake that is pretending to be dead, Masa Ed did not drop his guard. Even more, he tensed up more, prepared to react to any moment change. However, after few seconds, noticing no further reaction from the chain; tempted, he lightly shook it, and expectedly, it reacted—its formerly lifeless end rose but expecting it to come for him as it did earlier, therefore about to respond accordingly, Masa Ed instead saw it shot forward before it stopped after hitting empty air, staying still midair, defying gravity. He did not expect the strange reaction.

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  "Hmm!" Like he discovered something exciting, Masa Ed dark brown eyes twinkled. Once again he yanked the chain and as he expected, it repeated its earlier response; it shot forward violently, hitting the empty air like a rubber band before staying still, defying gravity.

  "Hahahahaha..." Masa Ed burst into laughter. "I am so lucky."

  Before he continues in his revelry, to test his hypothesis, he yanked the chain again but this time with more force—it was violent—and as he suspected, it shot forward way longer before suddenly pausing midair at an instant, releasing way more energy that made the air snapped loudly. His thought his right; the mysterious golden chain respond to small changes he applied at where he held it, a change proportional to the changes but a multiple of the force he applied.

  'Its just like a lever system.' He thought. Much more excited, he proceed to carry on further test on his conclusion. Firstly, while tightly gripping the chain with one end at where he has been holding it, making sure he does not move it a certain way that will provoke an undesirable response from it, Masa Ed while keeping his attention on the still end of the chain suspended midair far away slowly starts to pull the rest of it out of the golden box slowly.

  After quiet a long time, luckily what he anticipated didn't happen, even after getting the super long golden chain out of the box completely, proving his guess that the mysterious golden chain only react to pulling force at only one end which is the suspended end is true. But no, he was wrong.

  "What?" Shocked extremely, he quickly dropped the chain that shot forward with insane momentum at the other end that just emerged the moment he grabbed it with his other hand. But then, the chain lost that momentum as it felt to the ground, looking lifeless, a result he suspected to be because he dropped it.

  "Another snake." Masa Ed muttered, looking melancholic briefly. "But one in disguise."

  Trying to calm his tense nerves, he sat on the sandy glowing white ground, looking at the about three kilometer long golden chain on the ground.

  'Thinking about it, If I have not followed the nameless idiot instruction and I just do things my own way, I should be out of here by now. Well, it just goes to show the need to be authentic. But why did I even follow what that idiot said without a second thought. Did they feed me a strange medicine, or I believed the idiot because we have something in common, maybe we are related.'

  "Mm." Putting a sudden halt to his thought and with a grunt, Masa Ed sprang up from the ground.

  "Its time to get to business before the jailers change their minds... Probably."

  Anxious about something happening that will stop him from proceeding with his sure fire escape plan, Masa Ed neared the golden chain on the ground.

  As he already concluded, pulling the chain makes it shoot forward with acceleration that is directly proportional to the force of the pull and how far that end travels is likewise directly proportional to the the length of the pull. Also, he is half certain holding the chain with one hand will draw a response on one of its end, and holding it with two hands should draw response from its two ends simultaneously, which being confirmed actually happened as he is now holding it with two hands, and in response, its two ends hover above the ground the same distance his hand is to the ground, confirming another property of the chain.

  "What about this?"

  Proceeding with learning how the golden chain operates, Masa Ed gently pull it to one side and in response the end of the chain moved the opposite direction—it curved midair—and as he suspected its acceleration depended on the amount of force he drew it with, and the distance the end moved midair relates to how much distance he drew it—nothing about its movement changed except the the direction it moved.

  "Let's see." Masa Ed muttered. Again, he pull it in the opposite direction, returning to where his hand was before the first pull, but unexpected, there was no movement except that its hovering end—the last ring of the chain—rotate a quarter turn anticlockwise.

  "Fuck!" Masa Ed screamed, not out of frustration as usual but out of excitement.

  "I get it." An enchanting smile originating from profound illumination bloomed on Masa Ed youthful face. To confirm his deduction, he drew the chain in a direction opposite the first direction he drew it, and as he expected, its hovering end curved and moved back to the point in space it was before it moved—an opposite direction to the direction he drew it. Then out of great excitement Masa Ed dropped the chain.

  "Hahahahaha..." He laughed joyously that he started jumping up and down before he transitioned into a folk dance they do on the day they are celebrating a man and woman who are starting a family in his hometown.

  However, he suddenly paused.