92: Chapter 92 Hua Niu Mobile Phones Are Awesome

Early morning.

Han Shuang held a green watering can, watering the small potted plants placed on her desk and balcony.

The bouquet of Bellflowers that Chen Mo had sent a few days ago had already been transplanted into a small flowerpot with potting soil, and they were currently growing quite well.

Han Shuang also carefully sprayed some water on them.

In the Sanatorium, tasks like watering flowers, dusting, and sweeping were usually the responsibility of the nursing staff. However, Han Shuang did them all herself and didn't let anyone else help.

After watering the flowers, Han Shuang stared blankly at the rising sun outside the window. She couldn't help but think of the news she had seen last night, and her expression turned grim.

She usually didn't have any entertainment activities, nor did she have the mood to watch dramas or scroll through videos. She only followed some news, especially medical journals related to people in a vegetative state, hoping to see a Breakthrough in medical science in this area.

To this end, she had already donated several sums from her personal account to relevant medical research teams. Unfortunately, so far, she hadn't seen any direction for a Breakthrough...

Before going to sleep last night, she had seen a piece of news.

It said that there was a special case of a vegetative patient in America. Fifteen years ago, he had an accident during an extreme sports event and was diagnosed as being in a vegetative state. During a recent examination, the doctor unexpectedly discovered that he had only lost his physical functions, and his consciousness had actually been the same as a normal person's all along. In other words, he had been lying in a hospital bed with a clear consciousness for a full fifteen years... Once this news got out, it received widespread attention. Everyone wanted to know what he was thinking, so they connected a brainwave interface to let him transmit simple messages. The first sentence he sent was 'Kill me quickly!'

As for whether his family followed his wishes, Han Shuang didn't know.

But after reading this news last night, she couldn't fall asleep for a long time. Even when she did fall asleep, she kept having nightmares, dreaming that Tang Yao was also connected to a brainwave signal...

If Yaoyao could also transmit messages, what would she express?

Fear? Terror? Loneliness? Or...

Han Shuang looked back at her daughter sleeping peacefully on the hospital bed, closed her eyes, and took a deep breath, not daring to think any further.

She took out her phone and casually opened a short video platform, hoping that those miscellaneous short videos would distract her thoughts.

Her phone was a Huaniu m80, the latest domestic model. It claimed to use domestic components for everything from the chips to the parts, primarily marketing itself on a sense of patriotism. So even though her previous phone was working perfectly fine, her husband insisted on switching her to this m80 model no matter what.

The eight-thousand-yuan price tag was nothing to Han Shuang, but thinking about it rationally, this price point was indeed like brands like Apple and Gionee, with a somewhat serious price premium.

However, it was a brand-new smartphone after all, so there was nothing to complain about in terms of performance. It operated very smoothly. With a tap of her finger, the short video platform was already open.

Huaniu Phone is just awesome!

An auto-playing news video caught Han Shuang's attention.

#Night Shift Security Guard Takes on Four Alone Late at Night to Save Female CEO#

It was a story about a heroic deed.

This act of bravery happened two or three days ago. Han Shuang had seen the text and image reports on news websites and had a slight understanding of it.

Now, to pass the time, she casually clicked into the related topic and started playing the video with the highest popularity.

The most popular video was an interview with the person involved.

The person involved was named Hu Gualing. In the video, Hu Gualing looked tall and sturdy, and his face didn't look like someone who was scheming or calculating. From his series of answers to the questions, it was clear that this was indeed the case; not only was he not calculating, but his personality was also silly, blunt, and very honest.

But even if he was a bit silly, being naturally kind and brave was already very commendable.

Han Shuang nodded in approval while watching the interview video, feeling a sense of goodwill toward the young man, Hu Gualing. Listening to his artless answers also felt much more pleasant to her ears.

But speaking of his answers, why did this voice sound a bit familiar... as if she had heard it somewhere before?

Han Shuang didn't think she would have any intersection with a stranger who was a security guard. After thinking about it, she just assumed it was because Hu Gualing had been so popular these past two days that she might have brushed past his interview video at some point without noticing.

Just then, her phone rang.

The caller ID showed an unknown number, but the location of the number was Jiangsu Province.

Han Shuang's brow furrowed slightly. Jiangsu Province... could it be that scammer from a few days ago?

That person had somehow obtained her private number and called saying he was Tang Yao's friend, even saying something about telling Tang Yao he was safe and so on. She had just been so anxious that she was momentarily fooled. After she went down and told her husband about it, they were certain the person was a scammer. Fortunately, in the end, whether out of a guilty conscience or something else, he had hastily hung up and given up on the scam. Otherwise, she would have reported him for telecommunications fraud no matter what.

He still has the nerve to call now? Is he still persistent?

Han Shuang picked up the phone, not wanting to say a single word to the scammer, waiting quietly for the other party to speak.

"Hello, Auntie. I called you last time."

Hearing the voice on the other end, Han Shuang gave a cold smile. 'Still pretending to be polite. If he were really polite, would he be doing something like telecommunications fraud?'

'And the voice sounds like a vigorous young man. Instead of doing something proper, he's a scammer. He really has no ambition at all! Compared to that brave young man Hu Gualing—'

As Han Shuang thought this, she suddenly realized something was wrong. When she was watching the interview video just now, she thought Hu Gualing's voice sounded familiar. Wasn't it because it sounded a bit like this scammer's voice?

When she received the scammer's call last time, she hadn't changed her phone yet. So the other party's voice, transmitted through digital signals, had some degree of distortion.

But this time, she was holding the brand-new Huaniu m80. The call quality was flawless, and the audio was high-definition and lossless. She could clearly hear that the voice on the phone was extremely similar to Hu Gualing's voice in the news interview she had just watched—it could even be said to be identical!

Could it be that this "scammer" was actually Hu Gualing, the man currently at the center of the most attention online?

"Auntie? Why aren't you saying anything, Auntie?" Perhaps because he hadn't heard a response for a long time after the call connected, the male voice on the phone, which was almost indistinguishable from Hu Gualing's, spoke again.

Han Shuang heard it very clearly this time, and the suspicion in her heart became even more certain. She asked, "Are you... Hu Gualing?"

On the other end of the line, Hu Gualing, holding his Dami Phone, was stunned for a moment. He hadn't expected the other party to actually know his true identity. But then he thought about it—he was already completely famous. Even if he wanted to hide his identity, he couldn't. It wasn't a big deal if she knew.

"Yes, I am Hu Gualing," Hu Gualing confessed.

"What you said when you called last time... was it all true?" Han Shuang had originally been certain the person on the phone was a scammer, but now that she knew the other party was actually the heroic Hu Gualing, she had to re-evaluate.

"That... I can only say it was half true and half false. Tang Yao and I are just online friends. We haven't been in touch for a long time. Out of concern, I found your number and called to ask about her situation." Since Hu Gualing already knew something was wrong with Tang Yao, he intentionally told a small lie, which was slightly different from his previous story, so as not to let Tang Yao's mother notice anything.

"Is that so..." Han Shuang had just learned about Hu Gualing's deeds in detail from the news. Knowing his character, he couldn't possibly be a scammer, so she didn't have much doubt in her heart. As for her daughter Tang Yao's situation, although she didn't want to broadcast it, she hadn't deliberately suppressed the news either. It wasn't a secret. After thinking about it, she still told Hu Gualing.

"A vegetative state..." Hearing the truth from Han Shuang, Hu Gualing didn't know what to say for a moment. He just offered a few words of blessing for a speedy recovery and hung up the phone.

Afterward, he called Xiao Niao to touch base and found that the information both of them had received coincided.

It seemed that this matter was likely true.

The Tang Yao they knew in the game had indeed been lying in a hospital bed for over half a year in reality...

Hu Gualing's heart was heavy. He stayed in his hospital room for the entire day without going anywhere. It wasn't until midnight that he lay on his bed, waiting to enter the game...