Super God Gene

Han Sen took a moment to look around, trying to place where he was within the core area. He wasn’t in the mood to hunt core xenogeneics at the moment. After he had confirmed his location, he just returned to camp.

Han Sen walked out of his private room, then suddenly jerked to a stop. Falling Leaf and Bao’er were staring each other down. Falling Leaf’s face, meanwhile, was covered in paper.* She was holding two cards, and she looked very serious.

Bao’er, on the other hand, was holding one card. She looked gravely at Falling Leaf’s two cards.

“Which one should I choose?” Bao’er wondered, carefully considering the decision. She pointed her finger, wavering between the two cards in the other woman’s hand. It looked as if she had to pick one out of the two.

When Han Sen saw them, he knew Bao’er and Falling Leaf were playing Old Man.

Old Man was very simple to play. One of the Jokers was removed from a normal deck of playing cards, and then the deck was dealt to the players.

Each player then removed all the pairs they could from their hand. Once their hands only contained the cards that couldn’t be paired, they took turns choosing cards from one another’s hands. If a player chose a card that they could pair with one of their own cards, the player could discard the pair. The winner was whoever got rid of the Joker, which could not be paired, and discarded all of their cards.

This was a game that Han Sen had played a lot with Bao’er in the past. Because Han Sen was very good at this sort of prediction game, Bao’er initially never won. But after they played for a while, he stopped winning so often. Before long, Han Sen felt as if he would never win another game. It took a lot of focus for him to play with Bao’er, especially when he was doing his best to avoid losing.

Eventually, he just stopped playing with Bao’er entirely, which meant Bao’er could never exact revenge on Han Sen for all the times he had beaten her. Bao’er had been angry about that for quite some time.