Yao Shen and the mutilated woman exchange looks of mutual shock.
No one else in the restaurant seems to notice her. Either that or all the other patrons are just incredible polite in the face of open wounds on someone's face, and Yao Shen is a huge asshole.
Xin Hulei notices Yao Shen's stunned expression, his chopsticks raised midway in the air as he stares at the next table over.
"What are you staring at?" Xin Hulei asks.
Yao Shen tries to explain himself just as Xin Hulei turns in the direction of the laughing woman. In that same moment a waiter passes across her table, hiding her from sight.
When both he and Xin Hulei can take a good look at her table again, there's no one there besides a single unremarkable man eating his food in silence.
Yao Shen grits his teeth. "Nothing. I thought I saw something."
He sends out a screaming call for the System, demanding an explanation from it, but all he gets is a lukewarm:
