Surviving Underground: Super Prompting System - Chapter 19

Chapter 19: Exploring The Unknown Region
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Not bad, Pistachio (little guy)!”
Just as Joseph put the cursed dagger on his waist, Pistachio drove a group of trembling demon rats out of the wooden house.
“Meow!”
Joseph looked at Pistachio’s prideful look and shook his head with a smile.
“Go and chase these demon rats to the Beast Pen. Don’t let them run around!”
Joseph turned around and picked up the Demon Pig Crystal Cores that were placed by the side. Then, he watched as they fled in the direction of the Beast Pen in a hurry.
Behind them, Pistachio chased after them casually. It looked very relaxed.
When he came to the Beast Pen, Joseph looked at the seven Demon Rats curled up together. Then, he threw the thinnest Demon Rat onto the trading platform.
Joseph, who only had six Demon Pig Crystal Cores, naturally had to choose the most suitable Demon Rats to modify.
Due to the existence of pistachio, the Demon Rats did not dare to move. Thus, Joseph quickly stuffed the six Demon Pig Crystal Cores into their mouths.
“Oink, oink!”
Soon, under the effect of the Demon Pig Crystal Cores, the six Demon Rats turned into fat and strong Demon Pigs.
However, this time, Joseph did not kill them directly. Instead, he locked the gate of the Beast Pen firmly, intending to keep the six demon pigs in the Beast Pen.
“Meow!”
Pistachio jumped to the top of Joseph’s head and found a comfortable position to rest.
“Little lazy cat!”
Ignoring Pistachio who was playing with his hair, Joseph returned to the wooden house and began to organize the materials in his hands.
[Wood: 65]
[Iron ore: 30]
[Cement: 10]
Looking at the scarce basic resources in front of him, Joseph raised his eyebrows. He did not expect that the resources he had exchanged for would be used up so quickly.
If he did not have a large amount of Demon Pig Meat and clean water created by the Water Ball Skill, he would have to work hard for a long time before he could accumulate the resources again.
“Let me see what rare materials are on the trading platform!”
He opened the trading platform and looked at a series of trading materials. Joseph slowly flipped through them.
[Trade Materials: wood x 200]
[Exchange Resources: Food x 20 or clean water x 500ML]
[Trading Materials: Rusty Iron Sword ]
[Exchange resources: food x 200]
[Trading Items: chocolate x 1]
[Trading Resources: roasted meat x 1]
…
Looking at the variety of trades on the trading platform, Joseph immediately found a lot of resources he needed.
Apart from basic resources, Joseph was more interested in chocolate. The mellow and delicious chocolate had always been Joseph’s favorite. After coming to the underground world for so long, he had almost forgotten the taste of chocolate.
“Let me see, one chocolate, two bags of instant coffee!”
Joseph kept trading on the trading platform. The items that others were unwilling to exchange for disappeared in a short while.
The basic resources had all broken through the triple digits.
Looking at the pile of resources in front of him, Joseph did not feel sorry for the food and fresh water that he had traded.
He picked up a piece of chocolate and started to taste it in big mouthfuls while sorting out the resources that he had just traded.
In a short while, the originally spacious wooden house only had a path that was less than a meter long from the door to the wooden bed.
“It seems that it’s time for the wooden house to be upgraded again!”
Joseph swallowed the last mouthful of chocolate in his mouth and then drank a mouthful of clean water to clean his mouth.
“Although I just exchanged for a lot of resources, if I want to upgrade the wooden house again, I’m still a little lacking. It’s time to go out and stretch my muscles!”
Just as he spoke, Joseph took the shovel and walked outside. After wandering around for the past few days, the system had not prompted him for a long time.
This made Joseph understand that the treasure chests around him should have become scarce after his crazy digging for the past few days.
If he wanted to continue excavating the treasure chests, he could only explore the areas that had not been excavated. This was also the most important thing for Joseph to do next.
“Meow!”
Joseph moved forward along the tunnel where the Demon Pigs had appeared the last time. In the dark tunnel, there were only the shadows of Joseph and Pistachio, one cat and one human.
“If I had known earlier, I would have brought a piece of wood and made a simple torch!”
Joseph walked forward slowly, mumbling softly.
Without a torch’s illumination, his speed was completely slowed down. Joseph did not know if there would be any danger ahead of him, so he did not dare to take large strides forward.
“Hiss, hiss!”
When Joseph walked nearly a hundred meters forward, he suddenly heard a small hissing sound.
“Meow!”
At that moment, Pistachio suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a ball of hot flames.
Through the flames, Joseph finally saw the source of the sound.
An earthen yellow poisonous snake shot out from a dark corner toward him. When he saw its pitch-black poisonous fang, it was not difficult for him to guess just how powerful the poisonous snake’s poison was.
“Hiss, hiss!”
The poisonous snake had just shot into the air when it was smashed down by the flames spat out by happy. It struggled in pain in the flames.
Even so, Joseph did not dare to be negligent. He took out his crossbow and shot an arrow at the poisonous snake. Only when the poisonous snake turned into charcoal in the flames did Joseph carefully put the arrow back into his quiver.
“Sure enough, it’s a very dangerous thing to explore.”
Joseph gently took a breath and continued to walk forward with the crossbow in his hand. He had already reached this point, so there was no reason to give up halfway because he was afraid of danger.
“Swoosh, Swoosh!!!”
In the following exploration, the crossbow in Joseph’s hand kept shooting out arrows, and small Magical Beasts fell in front of him one by one.
There were poisonous snakes, lizards, and even a violent turkey!
After placing all the different kinds of corpses on the trading platform, Joseph immediately exchanged for a piece of wood to make a simple torch.
With the illumination of the flame, the danger hiding in the dark was no longer dangerous.
With Joseph’s equipment and Pistachio’s assistance, ordinary wild beasts were no match for Joseph.
Joseph did not even have the chance to pull out his Cursed Dagger.
“Why is it suddenly so hot?!”
The deeper Joseph walked into the tunnel, the hotter he felt the temperature around him become. Even his exposed skin had become flushed.
“Am I approaching a dangerous area?”
Joseph stopped subconsciously because he found that not only was the temperature getting higher, even the Magical Beasts he encountered earlier had disappeared without a trace.
“The Magical Lizard that I just killed is already two hundred meters behind me!”