Surviving Underground: Super Prompting System - Chapter 31

Chapter 31: Highly Poisonous Lizard
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Hurry up and catch up!”
After a day of continuous meditation, Joseph’s Mana had already reached 200. With the speed of his Basic Agility Spell, he no longer needed to cross the river through the wooden raft.
However, Pistachio was naturally afraid of heights. Pistachio had no choice but to sit on the wooden raft by itself and slowly paddle toward the other side of the river with a paddle that was taller than him.
“Meow!”
When he heard Joseph’s urging, Pistachio immediately frowned and roared fiercely.
For the sake of this exploration, Joseph had deliberately put away the wooden house. He had also picked more than half of the Fluorescent Tangerines on the tree.
When he came to the underground world on the previous level, it was already close to noon.
He decided to place the wooden house and had a simple rest.
When he left the last time, he clearly remembered that the system had prompted him of the location of five treasure chests, but the best one was only an E-Grade Food Treasure Chest.
Thus, Joseph did not immediately dig them out but returned to the wooden house.
After a period of time, Joseph had long understood that the underground world’s day and night were completely different worlds.
When night fell, many Magical Beasts that slept during the day would open their eyes and begin their hunt.
Most importantly, when night fell, the human’s eyes would be greatly affected. Even Joseph could not guarantee that he could see clearly in the dark.
Even if he could, it was only within a range of not more than ten meters around him.
In fact, based on the resources that Joseph had accumulated, he could simply lie in the wooden house and live comfortably for a long time, enjoying the life that others dreamed of.
However, sitting idly and just eating was not Joseph’s character.
If he wanted to live a better life in the underground world, he only needed to constantly become stronger and explore this unknown world.
Especially after he had recently killed many Magical Beasts, he was even firmer in his thoughts. If even the early-stage Magical Beasts had extraordinary strength, then how terrifying would the higher-level Magical Beasts be?
Although the survival game was called a game, it was different from online games. High-level monsters would not only stay in their own areas, but they were truly living Magical Beasts.
If he really encountered them one day, he would not be able to resist them with his current strength.
Joseph did not rest. Instead, he went through the blacksmith’s table to replenish twenty arrows.
While he was forging on the blacksmith’s table, he began to practice Basic Meditation.
With the Water Ball Skill and Basic Agility Spell, Mana was the ability that he wanted to improve the most.
When everything was ready, Joseph opened the chat room to absorb the useful information.
The content of the chat room was mostly about the state of the survivors and the situation they had discovered.
Many people had already mastered the skill of digging. There were even a small number of people who had dug up several treasure chests in a short period of time.
They were not Joseph. Without the help of the system, they would only have a chance to obtain the materials they wanted if they continued to dig.
There were even some of them who were quite skilled. They had already started to engage in the most primitive clashes with the Magical Beasts. However, without any equipment, they still lost more than they won, and a large portion of the pioneers died.
Therefore, many of the survivors had already begun to dig to meet their own kind as soon as possible. They wanted to form an alliance between two or more people.
There were also many survivors who were short in supply and began to hunt their own kind and snatch their supplies.
Death and betrayal were showcased in the chat room at this moment. Many survivors would describe the appearance of the murderer before they died, hoping to help others who had not been killed.
However, when the survivors first came into contact with each other, most of them had not experienced the cruelty of this world.
“Be careful… Andrew!”
“These damn scumbags, they even dare to kill their own kind!”
“Why can’t they coexist peacefully? One more person will always give more hope!”
“Damn bandits, don’t let me, Officer Clark, catch you! Or I will definitely make you accept the punishment of the law!”
Most people with good intentions simply could not understand the actions of these bandits.
However, Joseph was very clear that this was no longer a society ruled by law. As long as they lived and died, only death awaited them if they continued to follow their previous mentality.
Although many people were denouncing and cursing, there were still some people who did not participate. They had already forced themselves to adapt to the laws of the underground world, just like Joseph.
It was not a problem for them to work together to survive when there was sufficient material resources.
However, when resources were scarce, the only food they had did not need to be wasted by others.
Moreover, there was no price to be paid for killing a person here, and no one would be fixated on this matter.
“Cooperation mode huh? I wonder if it will make it more difficult to survive when the time comes?”
Joseph could not tell if this was a good or bad thing at the moment.
Working with many people would make it easier to dig, and it would even greatly increase the survival rate in the face of Magical Beast attacks.
However, there were advantages and disadvantages. When food was scarce, there would definitely be some things that no one wanted to see.
In the blink of an eye, the sky had already darkened. Joseph did not expect that he would stay in the chat room for so long.
Tonight’s dinner was no longer roasted meat, but roasted meat with bread.
Thick roasted meat was sandwiched in the middle of the Rye Bread. This was also a change in the recipe for dinner, was it not?
In order to raise the standard of the dinner, Joseph even squeezed a cup of fruit juice with his Fluorescent Tangerines hand.
After a while, the new dinner was finally freshly cooked.
However, Pistachio was obviously not interested in it. He still held a big piece of roasted meat and gulped it down.
After dinner, Joseph finally began to prepare for tonight’s hunt.
With a simple quiver on his back, a shovel, and a torch in his hand, Joseph and the yawning Pistachio walked out of the wooden house.
Looking at the already dark sky, Joseph held the torch in his hand and continued to explore.
However, with the torch and his current physique, he could only see thirty meters away.
Most of the Magical Beasts that came out at night had good night vision. If it was not for training his night fighting ability and hunting Magical Beasts, Joseph would not have made the decision to hunt at night.
However, with the crossbow, thirty meters of vision was enough. As long as it was not a flying Magical Beast or a Magical Beast that was particularly agile, Joseph was confident that he could kill the target with one arrow.
When Joseph came to the corner where he encountered the Death Hound.
[System Prompt: there is a D-Grade Treasure Chest fifty meters ahead, but there is a Highly Poisonous Lizard that is full of danger. Now is the best time for you to attack before it finds you.]