[Target: Wang Ru] [Skill: Psychiatric Nursing (Mastery)] [Size: 4M (Status: Unavailable for Download)] (Description: Includes core professional knowledge such as observing patients' conditions, medication management, and crisis identification.)
[Target: Li Dalin] [Skill: Safety Restraint Technique (Proficient)] [Download Data: 3M (Status: Available for Download)] (Description: Enables the quick and effective restraint of violent or self-harming patients without causing injury. Includes various joint locks, body pinning, and team restraint techniques.)
Seeing this,
Hu Long only had to think for a moment before he understood what was going on.
He knew Wang Ru. She was the nurse who had just given him his medication, and her name had been written on her badge.
As for Li Dalin, he was probably the male orderly's name.
The skills were easier to understand. They must be the skills those two possessed.
Watching the words fade,
Hu Long's thoughts stirred.
He considered why the words had appeared.
Do they only appear when I make contact with someone?
The strange words before his eyes had appeared precisely when the two of them touched him.
As they walked away, the words in his field of vision had faded.
But what did this mean? Could he download their skills?
The moment the thought crossed Hu Long's mind,
a silver-white screen abruptly appeared before his eyes.
[Host: Hu Long] [Skill: Network Offense and Defense (Master)] [Network Speed: 8M/S] [Data: 0M] [Source Value: 3 wisps]
As Hu Long scanned the panel, the words on it weren't in any language he recognized.
Yet, strangely, he could understand them with ease.
At the same time, a small amount of information flowed into his mind.
Combined with what he had seen earlier,
it was easy for Hu Long to understand the situation and the panel's purpose.
Just as he'd guessed, in short, he could obtain Source Value, convert it into data, and use it to download skills from other people.
He also gained a basic understanding of how these skills were ranked.
The panel divided skills into five levels.
The level indicated how thoroughly a person had mastered a given skill.
From lowest to highest, they were Beginner, Proficient, Mastery, Master, and Perfected.
First, Beginner. This was the stage of a novice just starting out, with only a superficial grasp. One had barely begun to understand a skill and learned its most basic theories and methods, but remained clumsy and inexperienced, able only to imitate.
One understood the skill, but was nowhere near knowing how to use it properly.
Second, Proficient. The fundamentals were solid, and one had gained a foothold. They could use the skill fairly well and handle ordinary situations.
One knew how to use it, but had yet to become truly adept.
Third, Mastery. One had fully grasped the core principles and could use the skill with ease and confidence. Anyone who reached this level was already exceptional.
Their command was polished, and they could apply what they knew in new ways. This was the crucial dividing line between an ordinary practitioner and an expert.
Fourth, Master. One had reached the peak of the craft, developed their own understanding and style, and approached the limits of the skill system.
It was an expert level beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Fifth, Perfected. This meant one had reached the highest state, returning to simplicity and leaving no flaws, arriving at the theoretical end of that path.
There was nowhere left to advance; the skill had become one with its practitioner. One in ten thousand could master a skill to this extent.
As for the only skill on the panel, Network Offense and Defense, rated Master, it was a skill Hu Long's original body had possessed.
Because of his family's circumstances,
he had explored a wide range of subjects from an early age, showing remarkable talent in information security in particular.
After systematic study and training, he had won the provincial competition championship as a teenager and placed third in a national information security competition.
If the strange shadow hadn't appeared, he might have gone even further.
Besides that,
the panel currently showed only three wisps of Source Value. According to the information it provided, converting them at the standard rate would yield just 3M of data.
That was why the nurse Wang Ru's skill couldn't be downloaded, while the male orderly Li Dalin's could.
In the end, Wang Ru's skill was of a higher level and required 4M. The data he could get from converting his Source Value wasn't enough.
As for where the panel came from, it might have been something that came with his transmigration, or perhaps a gift from some deity.
Hu Long wasn't particularly concerned about that.
For him, worrying about it would be a pointless drain on his energy. Even if he knew the truth, it wouldn't help him in the slightest.
All he needed to know was that the panel was useful to him.
He tried it out briefly.
The silver download panel appeared before him whenever he focused his thoughts on it.
"Well, since you're silver, I'll call you Tai Su!"
The thing didn't have a name, so Hu Long casually gave it one to make it easier to control.
Tai Su was one of the Five Great Stages recorded in ancient texts.
It was silver-white in color and symbolized the origin of all things, the foundation from which all things evolved.
In some ways, the name suited it quite well.
As soon as he said the name, the panel gave a faint shudder.
Then Hu Long discovered that calling out "Tai Su" was enough to summon the panel directly.
"So I can control it with my thoughts? Interesting!"
Hu Long felt like he'd gotten a fun new toy.
After playing with it more than a dozen times,
he finally put it away.
He was curious about what it felt like to download a skill,
but Hu Long didn't choose to download one right away.
Since he'd lost contact with the two of them, he could no longer download their skills.
Downloading was only possible while he was in contact with someone.
Besides, the two skills he'd just learned about were of no use to him.
Even if he downloaded them, they wouldn't change his current situation.
And he still didn't know how to obtain Source Value, so what little he had was precious.
He naturally had to be cautious about using the panel to download skills.
But there was no point thinking about that right now.
His top priority was to get some proper rest and let his body recover.
Then he needed to leave this psychiatric hospital, find a way to obtain Source Value, and use the panel's power to deal with the threat to his body.
Only then could he stay alive.
The appearance of the download panel had dispelled some of the gloom that the strange shadow had cast over Hu Long.
Since he had transmigrated here, and a strange woman in green existed, this world was definitely no ordinary place.
At the very least, it wasn't the normal technological world described in the original host's memories.
There shouldn't be much trouble finding a way to deal with the threat to his body.
As he was thinking this over,
he felt a headache coming on, along with a wave of dizziness. The walls around him seemed to sway.
When he noticed this,
Hu Long closed his eyes again.
He decided to rest for a while.
This body was already on the verge of collapse, as though it had been completely drained. It was extremely weak.
If he didn't get some rest, then at this rate, even if that ghostly thing didn't kill him,
he might drop dead from exhaustion before long.
That was the last thing Hu Long wanted.
However,
Whoosh!
The next second,
his eyes, which had been closed, flew open again. A flicker of suspicion appeared in his dark pupils.
It was as if he had seen something impossible to understand.