Surviving Underground: Super Prompting System - Chapter 2

Chapter 2: The Surprise Brought By The Treasure Chest
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Phew!”
Joseph took a deep breath. He had no other choice. If he did not open the treasure chest, he would not be able to get food and fresh water. Otherwise, he would not be able to survive for more than a few days with the harsh environment around him,
It was up to God to decide whether he would live or die.
Joseph swung the shovel and suddenly split the treasure chest open. The moment the treasure chest was broken, Joseph’s lips curled into a smile. It was a look full of surprise.
[F-Grade Treasure Chest opened: Clean water x 3 obtained.]
[Cold beef burger x 2 obtained.]
[Broken Magic Skill Book Fragment: Water Ball Skill obtained.]
Magic Skill Book?
Before Joseph could recover from his shock, a mechanical system voice rang out in his mind.
[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully opening the first treasure chest. The Super Prompting System has been officially activated!]
[System prompt: within three meters of the host, there is an F-Grade Treasure Chest!]
[System Automatic Appraisal: the treasure chest contains a sharp, short sword!]
[System can automatically prompt the host of hidden treasure chests and dangers!]
[Ding! Automatic data assimilation. This world’s treasure chests are divided into F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS!]
Joseph felt as if he was blessed by God. Not only did he find the treasure chest, but he also awakened a treasure chest that could allow him to survive in this cruel and terrifying world.
“However, all of this is far less important than filling my stomach first. Although it’s a cold hamburger, at least it’s my favorite, not a damn pizza!”
In this completely enclosed underground world, what was more important than food and clean water?
On the other hand, that damn dagger had long been forgotten by Joseph, because he had not encountered any greater danger.
He picked up a hamburger and devoured it. Although the taste of the hamburger was very bad, it was indeed the most delicious food Joseph had ever eaten in his life.
After eating a hamburger in one go, Joseph resisted the urge to continue eating because he did not know if there were other treasure chests with hidden food around him.
This hamburger was his only food.
After placing the hamburger and clean water properly, Joseph picked up the goatskin fragment.
[Broken Water Ball Skill Book: fragment 1/3.]
[Note: If you want to survive in the underground world, Water Ball is your most important skill!]
“A Magic Skill Book?”
Looking at the notes on it, he immediately understood the importance of the Water Ball Skill. However, it was definitely not an easy task to gather three Skill Book Fragments.
However, for Joseph, who had the Prompting System, it was not a difficult task.
After placing the Water Ball Spell Fragment close to his body, Joseph looked at the chat room again.
At this time, the chat room was even more lively. The captions on it kept on rolling in like a train. If it was not for the fact that it could be slowed down, there would be no way to get any information.
“Damn it, why did my treasure chest expel a bunch of wooden stones? Where did my food and clean water go?”
“Brother upstairs, you should be satisfied. I opened the treasure chest and got a Ferrari key. Now I want to die!”
“I got the latest model of Hermes’ bag!”
….
Not everyone was so unlucky. Some lucky people even got a fragrant roast turkey from the treasure chest, and it was even steaming.
This made Joseph, who had just finished eating a cold hamburger, feel very envious.
After finding that there was nothing to extract from the chat room, Joseph began his next step.
First, the food problem had been temporarily solved, but this did not mean that he could relax.
The most important thing to solve was to dig out a path to communicate with the other survivors as soon as possible and obtain useful information.
The second thing was to arm himself up as much as possible to avoid any accidents during conflicts with other people.
Finally, he found a suitable place to stay and used it as his temporary base to explore the surroundings.
After sorting out all his thoughts, Joseph picked up the shovel again and walked in the direction of the system prompt.
Looking at the particularly deep pit in front of him, Joseph immediately fell into deep thought. He was just one shovel away from the treasure chest. If not for the system prompt, he might have been stuck with this treasure chest for the rest of his life.
Rubbing his palms, Joseph found the right spot and dug a few shovels down. Sure enough, he found a hard object in the soil and broke through the soil that was covering it. A dilapidated treasure chest with the same F mark as before appeared in front of him.
In order to avoid the unexpected situation from the last time, Joseph still cautiously used the shovel to test it out. After confirming that there was no danger, he opened the treasure chest.
[F-Grade Treasure Chest: a sharp, short sword obtained!]
[Obtained: Basic Short Sword Application Skill Book.]
Did the treasure chest drop a skill book?
It was not a fragment this time?
Shocked, Joseph took the goatskin blueprint in front of him in one hand. There were words written on it that he didn’t recognize at all, which made Joseph feel troubled for a moment.
Could it be that he could only watch helplessly with the skill book in his hands?
Just as he flipped the goatskin blueprint back and forth, the totem mark on his wrist suddenly became hot. After a few seconds, he discovered that there was an additional option on the virtual screen: skill learning.
[Skill Learning: learnable skills, basic short sword application!]
[Skill Learning Conditions: one short sword!]
[Will you learn it? The skill book will disappear after learning!]
Looking at the prompt on the virtual screen, Joseph did not hesitate at all. He immediately confirmed learning. In this dangerous place, only by becoming stronger could he survive.
Following Joseph’s confirmation, the goatskin blueprint in his hand instantly turned into a stream of light and entered his mind. For a moment, a lot of knowledge that he had never come into contact with, appeared in his mind. It was as if he had trained hard for many years.
Looking at the short sword not far away, it became particularly familiar to him. It was as if it was an indispensable part of him. That feeling was very strange but familiar.
Picking up the short sword, Joseph kept slashing at the wall. Each and every move revealed a different feeling. The sword marks on the wall were not messy but had a unique pattern.
After around ten minutes, Joseph finally stopped. Everything that he did just now was to vent the unbearable pressure in his heart.
“Huff! Huff!”
Letting out a few deep breaths, Joseph placed the short sword on his waist. After identifying a direction, he picked up the shovel and strode over.
“It’s time to take action!”