Just as he was agonizing over how to extract human limbs, torsos, and so on, Wei Liang, who stood nearby, seemed unable to watch any longer, perhaps because he had waited too long.
"Oh, come on!" he grumbled as he stood, patting the dust off his backside and urging, "Lao Lin, what exactly are you trying to do, dragging this out?"
"Ugh!"
"I'm done watching! Done!"
"Assembling a Puppet or whatever-shouldn't that be pretty much like playing with models?"
"It's such a huge radish, and there aren't any real boundaries. Just mess around with it."
"Do you really need to stand there spacing out for this long?"
"Man, I actually wanted to watch... I'm out of here. Back to the classroom to enjoy my doujinshi."
With that, he trotted off, like a bystander who left halfway through a show when there was nothing to see.
Lin Yi, however, began pondering Wei Liang's words.
Playing with models? Just mess around? Liangzi must be giving me a hint, right?
He repeatedly muttered Wei Liang's words, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Could the key to Wei Liang's hint be "there aren't any real boundaries"?
He had been fixated on taking it apart like a master butcher dissecting an ox, trying to feel out the corpse's boundaries, find the parts closest to what he envisioned, and then extract them. But Wei Liang's "suggestion" seemed to be that he should ignore the boundaries and get straight to work.
Ignore the boundaries... could that work?
He pondered for a while, casually tracing motions in the air.
When he reached a certain step, a brilliant gleam suddenly burst from his eyes.
"It really works!"
"That's Liangzi for you!"
He realized that if his initial idea had been to extract a bracelet from a Raw Stone,