Evolving by devouring from a young dragon

Blue stood on the main road for a moment, suppressing the thoughts surging in his core one by one, and then spread his consciousness out again, issuing a new command to all the stone golems that could still move.

He needs them to take stock of the city.

Commands are transmitted via the core pulse frequency, much faster than speaking.

The gist is to disperse to stone houses, warehouses, and public buildings throughout the outer city, and to inventory the remaining items inside one by one, including artifacts, stone slabs, rune carvings, and mineral samples. Nothing should be moved; only their location and condition should be recorded.

Upon receiving the command, the stone golems silently dispersed and entered the stone houses on both sides of the main road one by one.

They lack intelligence, but they have no misunderstanding of the instruction to "record location".

Upon entering each stone house, a spatial coordinate is marked in the core, and then the basic sensory abilities carried by the user are used to scan the items inside the house one by one.

Blue followed behind.

He doesn't need to personally enter each stone house; the stone golem's sensory data will be transmitted back to him in real time via the core frequency.

But he still bent down and peered into each room.

The interior layout of most stone houses is similar: a low stone couch, a stone table, and a few stone utensils.

The stone bed was used by the Stone Clan for hibernation, and its flat surface could even reflect the faint light emanating from the core of his chest.

The utensils included stone bowls, stone mortars, stone hammers, and several irregularly shaped stone tools whose uses he couldn't immediately discern.

These items all have one thing in common: they are well-preserved and show no signs of wear and tear.

Blue thought of a possibility.

The creatures that lived here walked out of the stone house one day and never returned.

When they reached the middle of the main road, a stone golem sent back a signal indicating an anomaly.

Bru bent down and walked into the stone house.

This room is slightly larger than the other stone houses. Inside, there is no stone couch, but only an extended and widened stone table, which is large enough to accommodate more than ten stone people sitting around it.

A smooth, dark stone slab was embedded in the stone table. The slab was covered with runes, and he recognized the arrangement of the runes the moment he entered.

The runes and totems on the stone gate are exactly the same, only scaled down by several times.

Council chamber.

Some people have been discussing things here.

He didn't know what it was about, but anything that could be discussed around the core totem must be something significant.

A stone jade tablet floated in the center of the stone table, exactly the same shape as the one he had seen in his dream.

He pressed his palm against the jade tablet, and a sharp pain shot through his fingertips.

The jade tablet stopped spinning, and a compressed piece of inherited information was directly poured into its core.

It is a memory of Shicheng.

The Jade Tablets do not tell the story in chronological order, but instead directly display structural diagrams and lists.

At its peak, Stone City had nearly three hundred stone golems, arranged in three tiers.

Outer city guards, middle city blacksmiths, inner city elders.

The decline is related to three things: the earth's spiritual energy is decreasing year by year, the earth vein nodes are failing one after another, and the intelligence of the newly born stone race is becoming increasingly unstable.

The last record is that the inner city gates were sealed.

The elders transferred all remaining energy to the core ley line node of the inner city to maintain the seal.

As for what happened after the gate was sealed, the imperial genealogy does not record it.

Bru withdrew his hand, and the jade tablet continued to rotate slowly.

He stood in front of the stone table for a while.

During his reading, he saw many things, but they all pointed to one thing.

That is, these stone golems were once alive.

However, due to insufficient energy, it fell into a deep sleep and became what it is now.

But there was one thing that puzzled him.

Why are these guys' frequencies exactly the same as mine? If they were stone giants, their core frequencies shouldn't be the same at all.

However, this event is not recorded in the book.

He gently placed the jade tablet back on the table, bent down, and squeezed out of the council chamber.

When they returned to the main road, the stone golem had already completed the inventory of most of the outer city area.

The records were compiled into his core: three warehouses containing forty-seven stone tools, most of which were intact; a stone stockpile containing roughly processed slabs of rock, with ample stock; and twelve sets of rune-engraved pieces distributed on the outer walls of stone houses on both sides of the main road, all of which had been marked with their positions.

Blue began the next phase of his work: reorganization.

He reassigned tasks to all the stone golems within the core.

The transport team gathered the stone tools in the warehouse into a single warehouse and stacked them according to their type, with stone hammers for stone hammers and stone chisels for stone chisels.

The cleanup team rearranged the scattered slabs in the stone yard, arranging them neatly according to thickness.

The maintenance team continued to reinforce the exterior walls of the stone house, repairing any loose rune inscriptions on the spot.

The repair method involves filling and fixing the stone with the simplest materials, without re-engraving runes, focusing only on structural stability to make the stone city strong again.

Otherwise, without any maintenance for so long, it might collapse any day now.

Blue walked back and forth around the main road, checking each item one by one.

When problems arise, he directly uses core resonance to make the other party understand his meaning and execute according to his ideas.

After completing all the checks, he walked towards the high ground on the outskirts of the city.

That place is a location recorded in the Jade Disc of Creation that can enhance the strength of stone giants.

When he arrived there, Bru looked around and found that it was exactly the same as when he had been peering into it, with no changes whatsoever.

He was somewhat alarmed.

Other places have changed and become dilapidated over thousands of years, but this place remains intact.

It seems this place is not simple...

Thinking this, he stepped inside.

However, due to the scarcity of magic power, the rune array was ineffective, so even if he knew how to use it, he couldn't use it.

Reluctantly, we had no choice but to leave.

There are quite a few magic crystals outside; we just need to replenish our magic power.

By the time he returned to the outer city, the stone golems had already completed their task.

Bru walked around the outer perimeter of the city, re-examining the gaps in the stone walls and the blockages in the side alleys, confirming that each blockage met the requirements.

Then he issued a final command from the core, instructing all the stone golems to retreat to the sides of the main road and wait in a state of minimum power consumption after completing their current tasks.

The stone golems retreated neatly to both sides of the main road, and the light from their core stone cores gradually dimmed, entering a semi-dormant mode.

However, they retain the basic ability to receive core frequencies even when at rest, and can be woken up at any time.

At this point, Blue began to consider his next step.

Auduin had instructed him to be careful in everything he did.

He had already stepped into Stone City and obtained the inherited memories, which officially confirmed the existence and safety of Stone City.

But the more fundamental question remains unresolved: how to enter the inner city?

Or should we force our way in?

But he quickly dismissed the idea.

According to the records in the imperial genealogy, the inner city was a council of elders, which required not only strength but also identity verification.

But he couldn't get identity verification.