"Hehe, it seems that you reacted quite quickly!" the man in black who was surrounded in the center smiled slightly.

"Who are you?" asked tentatively, one of the ten men surrounding the black, hearing the familiar voice.

He now understands that the person who came here has no malicious intent, if there is malicious intent, he has already started to do it, not only did the man in black not make a move, but also stood there quietly, and he didn't mean to do anything, besides, this voice still sounds a little familiar to him, but he can't remember it for a while.

"Knock on the national teacher. At this time, at this time, the patrol soldier who had arrived earlier suddenly put down the spear in his hand, knelt there, and shouted to the man in black in the center.

It turned out to be a national teacher, and I said that the voice sounded familiar. Hearing the patrol soldiers say that this man was a national teacher, the man before said to himself.

He only heard this voice a little familiar before, and he didn't know who this person was, but he was sure that this person had absolutely no malice, and now, after hearing other people say that this is the national teacher, he suddenly realized, yes, yes, I remembered, this is the voice of the national teacher, how can the national teacher have malicious will towards the country.

However, he immediately felt that things were not good, since it was the national teacher who came, why didn't he and the others bow down to him, wouldn't it be disrespectful?

Thinking of this, he hurriedly glanced at the other nine brothers, quickly knelt down, and said, "My subordinates knock on the national teacher." ”

Seeing the leader kneeling, the other nine people also knelt down one after another, seeing that the national teacher did not kneel and worship, what kind of system would he become.

"My subordinates meet the national teacher. At this moment, the people who knelt on the ground said in unison, and their voices appeared strong and powerful, which shows that their strength is not low, and those who are low in strength may immediately fall down from exertion after shouting this voice.

"No need, everyone should be flat!" The man in black smiled slightly, raised his right hand, and motioned for a few people to be flattened.

"Thank you, National Teacher. The men hurriedly got up and thanked them.

"You don't have to bow down to me here, this is not a hall, and I am not Your Majesty, just call me in the future," the man in black smiled and said.

"What's the matter, you're a national teacher, I'm afraid it's not ...... for us to call you directly," one of them asked tentatively.

"What's wrong with the national teacher, it's not inappropriate for you to call me like that, besides, you guys are also very hard, your mission is very good, I was discovered by you within two seconds of coming here, it's good, what you want is such an effect, do it well in the future, I will tell Your Majesty when I have time, let him reward you." ”

"Thank you for the compliment. "Hearing that the national teacher wants to praise himself in front of His Majesty, it is a dream thing, besides, except for a few important people in the palace, I am afraid that no one is qualified to speak in front of His Majesty.

Thinking of this, they also smiled slightly, the national teacher and His Majesty can praise themselves, not bad.

"You don't have to be too happy, although you reacted quickly just now, you still took the wrong step. Seeing a few proud people, the man in black smiled.

"That step?" the ten people and the soldiers behind them glanced at each other, and asked suspiciously, "I and the others are not wrong, what is going on?" Can they be comfortable when they are poured cold water on the head by others?

"That's the moment you knelt down for me. Seeing the man with a puzzled face, the man in black explained.

"Could it be that we knelt down wrong?" Those people glanced at each other again, and everyone had doubts on their faces, the moment they knelt, as a national teacher, it was completely necessary to let themselves and others kneel, how could something happen, they didn't wonder if they didn't wonder.

"You know me just now and knelt down for me, but have you ever thought about what would happen if the person just now wasn't me?"

"National teacher, you are laughing, how can that person just now be someone else?" those people suddenly understood, and asked with a smile, in their minds, the national teacher was joking with himself and others.

"I said what would happen if that person wasn't me, but an enemy?" asked the man in black.

Hearing this, except for the national teacher, the faces of the others became heavy, if it was really not the national teacher, but the enemy, then I am afraid that things would not be good.

"No matter what, you must always remember that there are many exercises in this world, and it is not impossible to use them to impersonate others, especially ordinary big people, the so-called 'defense of people is indispensable', you will show me bright eyes. The national teacher said solemnly.

"Yes, the national teacher, his subordinates know their mistakes, learn a lesson this time, and change it tomorrow. Hearing the national teacher criticize himself, those people are elites, and naturally know what to do, so they hurriedly knelt down again, and said seriously and solemnly, the reason why they knelt down was that they felt guilty for their behavior, and second, they sincerely admitted their mistakes to the national teacher.

"As I said, you don't have to kneel to me, it's good that you can reflect. The man in black said lightly.

Listening to the faint tone of the man in black, those who knelt down naturally understood that this was not only for themselves and others to be on guard, but also for themselves and others to kneel for him again.

They who know the former and know the temper of the former, know that the national teacher has always been serious and will not lie, let alone joke.

And from the former's faint tone, they seemed to hear the former's secret meaning, and quickly stood up.

"It's not that I blame you, just like just now, if that person is not me, but the enemy, it doesn't matter if you kneel down, the key is that when you kneel, the enemy will take advantage of the situation and kill you, you don't even have a chance to fight back, and you don't know how you died until you die. Looking at the few people with bad faces, the man in black sighed and said seriously.

"Please rest assured, we will keep it in mind. The men replied in a loud and crisp voice.

"So you have to remember that you must not trust someone at will, especially someone of high status, but you must combine his strength with something that can prove his identity to judge whether he is real or not. "The national teacher said.

"Please rest assured, we will keep it in mind. Again, the men said in a loud and crisp voice.

"Just remember, okay, I still have something to do, you guys go on a mission!" said the man in black anxiously, and then walked towards the palace.

Seeing the man in black go to the palace, they knew that the national teacher must have gone to discuss something with His Majesty, and at that moment, they no longer hesitated to disperse and carry out the task of themselves and others.

As the man in black walked towards the palace due west, he took off the black cloak he wore on his head.

Before, he wore a cloak completely because he was afraid that others would recognize him and prevent trouble, but now, when he arrived at the palace, that is, his home, there was nothing to watch out for, besides, he was a little uncomfortable wearing the cloak, and he saw that the things outside were a little dark and blurry, and it was a little difficult to even breathe the air.

Taking off the cloak, the face of the man in black was presented, his face seemed to be happy but unhappy, seemingly unhappy and happy, his face was neither happy nor angry, only a faint expression, giving people a feeling of incomprehension.

This person is the most trusted person of the emperor in the palace of the Sunset Empire, 'Gu Dan', and also the national teacher of the Sunset Empire, in the Sunset Empire, there are few people who can be compared with his noble status.

In a few seconds, Gu Dan walked to a large gate on the west side, which was now tightly closed.

The gate here is made of a black mixture of iron and copper, and the toughness and hardness are much beyond our imagination, even if a peerless powerhouse comes to attack this door, I am afraid that it will not be able to break for a while, and it must use some secret, quick and quick stunts.

Those who are attentive will notice that on this iron and bronze door, there are also two dragons with teeth and claws, and if you take the middle as a line of symmetry, they are exactly symmetrical. And in the middle of them, there seems to be a trough that is not too big or too small, as if it is put in something, but it is also strange to say, whether it is a dragon or a trough, it seems to merge into the door, and there is no protruding place.

It's night, but because the night pearl in the west is hanging in the center, and it is also the door of the palace, the light here is not too dark, but compared to the bright light of the day, it is far behind.

On the left and right sides of the palace gate, there are two stone lions carved from hard, good quality and small density stones, lifelike, the form is no different from the form of the real lion, they are looking at the door with their mouths open, as if they are enough to watch the door, and they do not stop for a moment to guard the door, but unfortunately, it is night, and it is impossible to see what color stone it is carved from.

At this moment, Gu Dan stretched out his right hand, and the golden light flashed, and then a square, small token appeared in his hand.

Gu Dan pressed the card on the slot in the center, and the sound came from somewhere, and the door slowly opened automatically as if it had received something, and besides, there was no sound yet, so it can be seen that this door is not simple.

Seeing the door open, the golden light flashed in the hand of the man in black, and the golden token disappeared in Gu Dan's hand again.

The door opened, revealing a wide, seemingly endless passage inside, and Gu Dan glanced at the passage, took a step, and strode in.

He couldn't understand why this sense of foreboding was getting stronger.

The passage was extremely wide, two or three meters wide, and its length was not known at all, because there was no end to it.

On the left and right sides of the passage stood columns of soldiers.

These soldiers, dressed in hard, black armor, wore black armor on their heads, and wore black and white masks on their faces, which were markedly different from those worn by the previous ten men.

They stood there silently with steel spears in their hands and iron boots on their feet, like statues, and one by one they stood there expressionless, like wooden men.

On their bodies, those weapons and armor are treasures, and the armor on their bodies is made of a hard fusion of copper and iron, which ordinary swords and guns cannot pierce at all.

The husks on their faces were made of a mixture of iron and copper, and when they were refined, some sterling silver was mixed into them.

The effect of sterling silver is not to harden the dough, but to make it difficult to breathe than if it were not fused, and it is undoubtedly best to wear them in such places where there is no air and air is dense. And the bronze spears in their hands and the iron boots on their feet are also of better quality than the ordinary, and the weight is much lighter.

The soldiers stood one by one within a metre of each other, and were spread out on the left and right sides, apparently standing guard.

Seeing Gu Dan walk in, they didn't look at Gu Dan, they still stood there expressionless and motionless, and let Gu Dan walk inside very casually.

Their duty is to prevent enemy invasions, and this is the last point of passage to the Sunset Empire's palace.

If it was ordinary people who came in, maybe they would have already started to do it, and the reason why they didn't do it was because of the previous 'identity confirmation'.

The phrase 'identity confirmation' is used exclusively for people with certain identities, who have a token in their hands, this token is not only the key to open the palace door, but also the pass to the palace of the Sunset Empire, of course, the person who can have this token, the person who is not a prominent person in the palace, they all have great strength and special status.

Perhaps, some people will ask, which people with prominent status and high status can have this token and can enter the palace, so will those with low status and not have this token not be able to enter this palace.

The answer is no, people who don't have this token don't have a high status like those who have tokens, and they don't get in and out of the palace as easily as those who have tokens. On the second day, the people who have the token enter first, they stand at the door and wait, and after a while, the emperor will send special people to meet them, of course, they are the people who go to the court every day in the palace, and they are not some strangers.

Since he is a person with a high status, prominent and high strength in the palace, it is natural that he can't be stopped, let him go!

Their expressionless appearance is completely condensed with all their mental concentration, always sensing the air around them, although this is the palace, but some people whose strength has reached the peak and can no longer be improved, it is not difficult to kick through the door with a mechanism, it is no different from stepping on an ordinary door, therefore, there may be the possibility of others being immersed at any time, they are always attentive, and they dare not relax at all.

Because of the fact that their minds were all condensed and they sensed the air around them all the time, their faces became darker after a long time, which was why they were expressionless. In addition, they were worried that the enemy might appear at any time, so their already heavy faces became even darker, and they didn't dare to relax!

After a long time, they gradually forgot everything, and they only fulfilled their own and other tasks, which made the emperor and others very happy and agreed, and there were not many people who could devote all their spiritual power to the implementation of the task.

In order to praise them and make them do better in the future, the emperor also personally gave them the title of 'guardian', it seems that the emperor still values them, of course, he is also for the sake of his own life safety, and his life is likely to be threatened at any time.

After a long time, they gradually became indifferent, not to mention the national teacher, even if the emperor came, they didn't greet each other, and still stood there expressionlessly.

Still, the Emperor was pleased, and he knew that these people had done so to do their best, and that there was no point in blaming them.

After a long time, the emperor and his men naturally got used to it, so the guardian ignored everyone, everyone could understand, and naturally they would not bother with them.

The current emperor and the others have long been accustomed to seeing their expressionless and indifferent eyes, so Gu Dan glanced at them, the corners of his mouth curved a small arc, and he smiled lightly with great satisfaction, these 'guardians' are quite serious about their tasks.

For Gu Dan's happy eyes, it didn't make any changes in which 'guardians', and he still stood there faintly to carry out his task.

Seeing this, Gu Dan could only sigh helplessly in his heart: "These guys, they are too serious about their mission. If his subordinates were all like them, and carried out their tasks so seriously, it would be easy for him and others to realize their wishes, but unfortunately, there were not many people like this, and he didn't know that some of his subordinates had already begun to betray him.

Thinking of this, Gu Dan shook his head helplessly again, sighed, and walked towards the depths of the passage.

And above the whole passage, every three or four meters there is a night stone, although the light they emit is not as bright and dazzling as the night pearl, but it dispels the darkness, has illuminated the whole passage, so that the road here is no longer too dark, as long as it is not blind, it will not be bumping into this place again.

It wasn't long before Gu Dan was on the other side of the passage, and his figure began to appear blurred, and then disappeared again.

At this moment, the door of the palace, which had a token and had opened on its own, slowly closed again, silently, and did not make any sound as it had been when it had been opened.

Gu Dan disappeared, in fact, he did not disappear, but made a few turns there, and therefore, disappeared from the eyes of everyone.

First left, left, left, right, right, left, and then he came to the door of a room.

The door is a magnificent and luxurious one, and the door is made of natural and fine wood. It was painted with red paint that had not been graceful for thousands of years, and two tigers were rusted in the middle.

The tiger looked mighty and terrifying, and it was also lifelike, prostrate on the ground, opening its big mouth, revealing its fangs, and with its terrible eyes, glaring angrily ahead, the two tigers, if the axis of symmetry was the straight line in the middle of the door, the two tigers were also symmetrical.

And in the big open mouths of the two tigers, there is also a small card slot, which may be a mechanism to open the door with a key! Unfortunately, there are only three people in the whole palace who have the key to this door. One is the emperor of the Sunset Empire, but the emperor's personal eunuch, and the third is the emperor's wife and queen.

In front of the gate, there were two people standing on the left and right, a total of four.

They differed from the previous Guardians in that they had no armor on their heads, no face husks on their faces, no armor on their bodies, and only ordinary clothes. On their feet, they were not wearing iron boots, and strangely, they held a long sword in their hands, and like some of the previous guardians, they stood there expressionlessly, not like warriors, how could any warrior wear ordinary clothes, say that they were ordinary people, and not like, how could there be ordinary people with weapons, like a wooden man, standing there upright, only a person with a nervous disorder might do that.

"Who?" As if sensing someone standing next to him and the others, a soldier shouted, and immediately drew his sword, ready to fight the man in black.

It was so late at night, he didn't believe that anyone dared to break into the emperor's bedroom, if he hadn't had a nightmare just now, after waking up from the dream and finding someone, I was afraid that the emperor would have been assassinated, they wouldn't have known!

Seeing the angry guards, Gu Dan shook his head helplessly, and sighed: "Now it's getting more and more disagreeable, and there are still those who fall asleep during the mission, it's terrible, I have to inform Your Majesty and change them, otherwise, I'm afraid the emperor's life won't be saved!"

For this guard, they should recognize their identity, and they have no reason to answer them.