The Zombie King Has to Go to Kindergarten Too

[Complete] [Bonus chapters updated] Zombie King Jiang Yu woke up one day to find that his mind had suddenly gotten much sharper. He remembered how, after the global mutations began, he had suddenly turned into a zombie and spent his days eating and eating until he became the enormous fat guy he was now. He looked down and shifted his chubby body, then gazed at the island where thirty million people had once lived, but where he could now barely even roll over. He decided that a true man knew when to bend and when to yield, and that he ought to make himself a little smaller. He had no experience, though, and ended up shrinking himself to the size of a five-year-old child. A Chinese search team patrolling nearby found and rescued him. Only after they brought him back to the base did Jiang Yu realize that it was now ten years into the New Era, a full decade after the global mutations. Jiang Yu was assigned to the Western Base and enrolled at Star Kindergarten. There, he met a three-year-old girl who could punch with three hundred pounds of force, and a four-year-old boy who had grown wings and flew around everywhere. The global mutations had altered the genetic sequences of some humans. Some gained new abilities, while others grew new organs. The kindergarten kids were tougher than the next, and the flowers of the motherland were all man-eating ones! At the end of the first semester, the teacher assigned an essay: My Dream. Student A: My dream is to join the base army and serve my country when I grow up. Student B: My dream is to join the research institute and develop a viral medicine that can save the whole world. Jiang Yu: My dream is to stop coming in last place. The other kids stared at Jiang Yu in horror. “Have you forgotten that the most powerful mutated zombie at sea knelt down to wipe your shoes?” Jiang Yu, fretting: “Math, Chinese, PE, transforming... I’m failing every single subject. Does that mean I won’t get to go to elementary school?” Note 1: The protagonist is an adult at heart. Once he has mastered controlling his size, he can grow bigger. Romance only begins after he grows up, when he has an adult mind and body. Note 2: This story is set in a distant sci-fi future and has no connection to reality. Warning 1: The story includes a powerful zombie eating weaker zombies, as well as eating mutated beasts. He really does eat them. The protagonist is a genuine Zombie King, not a human in a zombie disguise. His body has truly become that of a zombie, and his brain was damaged by zombification. He doesn't level up by eating people, but by consuming energy-rich creatures such as low-level zombies and mutated beasts. As he grows stronger, he gradually regains his human intelligence. That is the kind of Zombie King he is! As a little one, you can think of the protagonist as a small wild animal. His mind hasn't fully recovered, so he still acts on instinct a lot, and can be a bit dazed at times. As an adult, the protagonist can control his abilities at will, and his mind will be fully restored. He'll be a gentle, calm, and clever adult. Warning 2: The love interest appears relatively late. My editor has repeatedly reminded me that nothing romantic can happen with a minor. I was afraid that if I introduced the love interest too early, they'd seem like father and son at first and then become a couple later, which would be incredibly weird! So the love interest will show up later. Lao Mu, who appears earlier, is not the love interest, but he is an important character! [IMPORTANT] If you can't accept the writing style or subject matter, please leave as quickly as you can, and don't look back! No need to tell me you're dropping the story!!!! Upcoming danmei novel: After the King of Hell Loses His Memory [Infinite Flow] After the King of Hell lost his memory, his heavy yin energy and aura of death made his forehead look dark, and he was captured by an Infinite Flow horror livestream System. System: Your lifespan is nearly over. Would you like to change your fate? Ming Yi: ? System: Confirm your binding, start the livestream, and enter the game. Wealth, longevity, and wishes are all within your reach. Ming Yi: ... [First stage: The Haunted School. It's said that all twenty-five students in this class committed suicide overnight. Mission: Spend seven days with your resentful classmates and survive.] Seven days later. Ming Yi stood at the lectern. He threw an eraser at a hanging ghost who was playing with his own tongue, and barked, “So you already know how to daydream in class, do you? Come up here and solve the problem on the board!” The hanging ghost shuffled tremblingly to the front, picked up a piece of chalk, and stared at the math problem until his eyes crossed. Problem: At an oil temperature of 180 degrees, a 200-pound muscular man would suffer severe burns. How hot must the oil in the tenth level of Hell's Cauldron of Oil be to fry a 3,000-pound soul-eating ghost until golden and crispy, without sticking to the pan? Show your work. Hanging ghost: “...” [Second stage: The Evil Spirits of the Desolate Village. It's said that the women in this village have a habit of eating men alive, and hate all men. Mission: Survive for ten days as a man.] Ten days later. Ming Yi stood with dead-fish eyes in the village square, wearing a red sash of honor. The words “Women's Best Friend” emblazoned across it were painfully conspicuous. A crowd of sobbing female ghosts clutched his hands and wept uncontrollably. “Director Ming, you've been the best director of women's affairs our village has had in hundreds of years. Are you really leaving? We'll miss you so much! You have to come visit us whenever you have time! Waaaaah!” Other people's horror livestreams: On the brink of death, narrow escapes, racing against time, total party wipe. Ming Yi's horror livestream: Nine to five, going to work as a civil servant →_→. Note 1: The pairing is with the Immortal Emperor. Note 2: The setting is entirely fictional. Note 3: This blurb is temporary and may be polished later, but the general idea will stay the same. Theme: Stand on your own and grow strong