By the time the feed switched over, Liu Qianqian had already eaten three wild fruits.
The commentator cried out in surprise, "Oh no, Liu Qianqian really has terrible luck! That fruit is called 'Belladonna.' It looks like Black Nightshade, but it's highly poisonous!"
"This is bad! Liu Qianqian has already eaten three, and now she's on her fourth!"
The bullet comments flooded in: "Damn that beast Qin Hao! He didn't take proper care of our Qianqian!"
"It's over! Our Qianqian is going to be eliminated early!"
The commentator said, "It looks like Liu Qianqian will be eliminated early. An ordinary person could die from eating just ten of these Belladonna fruits."
"That's right. Although Liu Qianqian has awakened an ability and is no longer an ordinary person, she has too little spiritual power in her body. If she ate twenty, she could still be poisoned to death on the spot."
"Unless Liu Qianqian has a Green Poison Python's gallbladder and Monster Core. If she ate the gallbladder and then refined the Monster Core, she could completely neutralize the poison."
"That may be true, but as far as we've seen while following her, Liu Qianqian doesn't seem to have encountered a monster like the Green Poison Python, so naturally she has neither its Monster Core nor its gallbladder."
"Besides, Huang Tianlong stole all of Liu Qianqian's Monster Cores. She doesn't even have any Monster Cores now."
As everyone spoke, Liu Qianqian finished her tenth fruit.
At that moment, Liu Qianqian suddenly felt a wave of dizziness.
She also had trouble breathing, and her vision blurred.
Liu Qianqian fell to the ground and immediately began having all sorts of hallucinations.
Of all the things she saw, Qin Hao appeared most often.
Just like that, Liu Qianqian foamed at the mouth, her body convulsed, and then she lost consciousness.
Fortunately, he didn't die; he had only fainted.
The feed turned to Qin Hao. He had finished dinner and was getting ready to sleep.
But just then, a group of examinees arrived at his place.
"Whoa, look! There's a little wooden cabin over there!"
"Yeah! It's pretty big, too. There should be enough room for the five of us to squeeze in."
"Hey, guys, do you think another examinee built that cabin?"
"No way. The storm the night before last was so fierce that if an examinee had built it, it would probably be gone by now."
"So you mean this cabin is a hidden perk that came with the exam grounds, and we can use it as long as we find it?"
"Of course! You should know that the ability I awakened was a Wood-Type Ability. It's just a shame I don't have enough spiritual power in my body to support building a cabin, so there's no way an examinee built this one."
"Why waste time talking? Let's just go up and take a look!"
With that, they started climbing the tree.
Inside the cabin, Qin Hao had just crawled into his sleeping bag when he suddenly heard the conversation below. He went to the entrance and opened the door.
At that moment, an examinee had just climbed up to the entrance. The door opened outward, so it struck the examinee right in the face, knocking him off the ten-meter-tall tree.
"Ah!"
With a scream, the examinee broke a bone on the spot.
"Fuck, guys, there's someone in this cabin! He just ambushed me!"
Qin Hao looked at the people beneath the tree, speechless.
"Hey, what's the meaning of this? Are you trying to steal my house?"
"Hmph, kid, you hurt our brother. Today, you either hand over this cabin, or we'll beat you until you do."
Qin Hao remained calm, though he was eager to give it a try. Until now, he had only hunted monsters; he really had never fought another person.
After all, monsters weren't as intelligent as humans, which was why Apprentice-rank examinees could kill advanced monsters.
It was precisely because monsters' intelligence was still at the level of wild beasts that they were easy to deal with.
And if this group joined forces, they really could take on an advanced tenth-tier monster.
"Hmph, looks like you're asking for a beating. Fine, very well, let's spar!"
With that, Qin Hao climbed down from the cabin.
"Come on, don't just stand there. I'll let you make the first move!"
Qin Hao looked at them and spoke with a calm expression.
"Hey, kid, you're not scared? There are five of us, and our abilities happen to be Beastification, Tiger King, a Wood-Type Ability, a Life-Type Ability, plus Metal-Type and Wind-Type abilities. I'm afraid you alone won't be much of a match for us!"
That was right. The Beastification, Tiger King in their group was Strength-Type, and with Beastification, it was much like Huang Tianlong, making its user a flesh-and-blood tank.
Under normal circumstances, Wood-Type Abilities were control skills, clearly making their user a mage.
Life-Type abilities were generally healing abilities, making their user a healer who could tend to injuries at any time.
If the Metal-Type Ability was a ranged attack skill, its user would be a damage dealer through and through. Add a Wind-Type assassin, and never mind Apprentice-rank examinees—even an advanced tenth-tier monster would be theirs to slaughter.
Unfortunately for them, they had run into Qin Hao.
Qin Hao alone possessed multiple skills. He knew the two ice-type control skills Ice Seal and Ice Cone, as well as the Time-Type skills Time Slow and Time Acceleration.
On top of that, he had the ranged attack Fireball Art and the Lightning-Type Lightning Fist.
The only thing he lacked was a healer's skill. Otherwise, he alone would have been worth five people.
"Hmph, enough nonsense. If you won't attack, then I'll go first."
To tell the truth, Qin Hao was a little scared. After all, those five had just dared to reveal their abilities outright.
That meant the five of them were very confident.
Moreover, although the Wind-Type Ability examinee had broken his leg in the fall, the healing skill of the Life-Type Ability had cured him.
Seeing that terrifying healing ability, Qin Hao guessed that the Life-Type Ability examinee had to have at least SS-rank talent.
Qin Hao used Lightning Fist to quickly close in, then attacked the healing-type examinee.
It was simple: he wanted to take down the healer first, which would make the rest of the fight much easier.
Unfortunately, those five were clearly no pushovers either. The Wood-Type examinee used a control skill, Entanglement. Numerous vines instantly sprouted around Qin Hao and wound themselves around him.
That greatly restricted his speed, and the Life-Type examinee immediately dodged to the side.
At that moment, the Wind-Type Ability examinee rushed to Qin Hao's side and stabbed at him with a dagger.
Clearly, he was trying to kill Qin Hao outright.
Not only that, but the Metal-Type Ability examinee nearby was also releasing iron needles one after another, shooting them at Qin Hao.
Qin Hao didn't panic. He instantly used his Spatial Ability.
The iron needles were then transported through space to the back of the Wind-Type Ability examinee's head.
Not only that, Qin Hao also used Time Slow.
That was effectively a control skill as well.
As a result, the Wind-Type Ability examinee's dagger was slow to reach Qin Hao's throat, and everyone present had slowed down.
But the iron needles that had been fired not only failed to slow down—Qin Hao also cast Time Acceleration on them, and they instantly pierced the Wind-Type Ability examinee's head.
Just as the iron needles emerged from the Wind-Type Ability examinee's head, Qin Hao used his Spatial Ability again, placing the needles' exit point behind the Life-Type Ability examinee's head.