Chapter 3 – Kindergarten Big Brother

“Let’s wait a bit longer! After Xiao Hui gets better.” To Su Hao’s surprise, his mother, Huang Shujun, was unusually resolute.

After she finished speaking, silence fell outside the room.

For the next month, Su Hao’s life became regular. He ate well, slept soundly, and spent the rest of his time crawling and walking. His body visibly recovered, regaining the healthy complexion of a child and becoming plump.

The overjoyed couple took Su Hao to the hospital for another check-up.

“Your child is no longer in serious condition. Bring him in for a check-up once a month. If there are no abnormalities for six months, you won’t need to come anymore.”

The doctor, a short-haired auntie around 50 years old, smiled happily upon seeing Su Hao’s improved complexion.

“Why has Xiao Hui changed so much this month?” Huang Shujun asked, still a little worried.

“His sleep quality has been very good recently, and his nutrition is adequate. Coupled with his strong vitality, rapid recovery is normal,” the doctor explained patiently.

“Thank you, doctor!”

After thanking the doctor, Huang Shujun left the hospital with Su Hao. As soon as they were outside, tears suddenly streamed down her face.

They flowed uncontrollably.

Su Hao was bewildered, not understanding what was happening with Huang Shujun. Could it be tears of joy? As he wondered if he should wipe his mother’s tears, he realized his arms and legs were too short. So, he tightened his grip on his mother’s hand with all his might.

Feeling the pressure from his fingers, Huang Shujun immediately crouched down and hugged Su Hao, sobbing. After a while, she tearfully explained the reason: “Xiao Hui, it’s mom’s fault. Mom shouldn’t have brought the bad emotions from school home, making you scared, unable to sleep well, and unable to eat well. It was mom’s fault!”

So that’s the reason! Su Hao suddenly understood. Everything in the world has a cause and effect.

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Over the next three years, Su Hao’s health improved significantly. He could run and jump, and was no different from other children of four or five years old.

During these three years, Huang Shujun experienced both joy and sorrow.

The joy came from her son’s improving health. Furthermore, his displayed intelligence was exceptionally high, even qualifying him as a child prodigy.

One time, she brought home school assignments to grade, and her son, seeing how tired she was, unexpectedly offered to help her grade them. At first, she smiled and didn’t pay much attention, but when her son pointed out an error in her grading, she was very surprised. So, she gave Su Hao a simple test, which he aced. She then increased the difficulty, and he aced it again. When asked who taught him, he replied: “I read it myself.” From then on, Huang Shujun was convinced her son was a one-in-a-million genius.

What worried her was that her son was too clingy, so clingy it made her question her life. She even secretly searched online multiple times for questions like ‘Are 5-year-olds very clingy?’. As long as it wasn’t during her work hours at school, wherever she went, Su Hao would follow, always appearing before her. As long as her eyes were open, she was sure to see her son.

This led her to suspect that besides being a genius, her son might have some strange form of autism. She didn’t dare take him to see a child psychologist, fearing her intelligent son would notice and become insecure.

Besides this, she was also concerned about her son’s education. He was undoubtedly a genius, and not just a genius in terms of academic performance. So the question arose: how do you educate a genius child?

As an elementary school teacher, she had taught many children, but when it came to her own son, she became unsure.

If it were someone else’s child, with her professional skills, she could easily boast and praise them to the skies with just words. But when it came to her own son, she hesitated. What if she taught him wrongly? She only had one son.

In the end, she asked her son for his opinion.

“Xiao Hui, you’re already at an age where you should be going to school. Should we try enrolling you in kindergarten?”

And so, Su Hao’s enrollment in kindergarten was decided.

For Su Hao, it was just about finding a place to get through the dangerous age of 5. Once he passed this stage, he believed everything would go smoothly afterward.

Kindergarten was not bad; the safety level was quite high. With that bunch of brats in the kindergarten, he figured they couldn’t beat him. With his current skills, he was more than capable of being the king of the kindergarten.

Su Hao, with his small backpack, successfully enrolled.

On his first day of enrollment, he made all the loud, noisy, mischievous, and bullying children cry.

From that day on, all the kindergarten children called Su Hao ‘Big Brother’ whenever they saw him. The atmosphere in the entire kindergarten was excellent, and the kindergarten teacher in charge declared it was the easiest class she had ever taught.

As for what Su Hao did in kindergarten, he certainly wasn’t playing house with the other kids. Instead, he’d lie down to pretend to sleep and begin studying Pinball Space.

He wanted to gain stronger survival abilities, and to survive better, he needed something special. Currently, the most special thing was Pinball Space, which could contain his consciousness and all his information.

He needed to contemplate what Pinball Space truly meant to him and what it could bring him.

“Can it only make me loop through endless death, revival, death, and revival?”

No! Not just that. There must be many functions that Su Hao doesn’t understand, waiting for him to discover and utilize.

What limited him now was his knowledge and imagination.

After overcoming the crisis of early childhood, Su Hao wanted to learn all the knowledge he could as quickly as possible, including subjects like physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, as well as humanity’s industrial systems, information technology, hardware, software, and a series of other knowledge. These things were the most important to him.

Because once he learned something, Pinball Space could record it and it would forever become his.

Of course, Su Hao had also considered using Pinball Space’s recording ability to record all knowledge first and study it slowly later. However, simply recording was useless. Only knowledge that he truly understood and comprehended became his.

That afternoon, Su Hao suddenly heard a noisy commotion from outside. This made his heart tighten, and a bad premonition surfaced.

Su Hao scrambled to his feet and looked out the window.

He saw a man about fifty years old barge in.

Su Hao immediately retreated and scanned the room. He then realized there was no back door. The assailant was right outside the front door, so escaping through it now would definitely mean being the first to be cut down. He was trapped.

There was nowhere to hide, only a pile of assorted toys in the middle of the room. He immediately ran to the toy pile, quickly picked up two plastic boards, lifted his shirt, and stuffed one in front and one in back.

The assailant’s face was filled with excitement and smugness, his eyes bloodshot and terrifying. He looked up and saw a person striking a “cool” pose and expression, which was Su Hao, standing right in front of him.

(End of chapter)