Betrayal and Death

Tomb raids, expeditions, treasure hunts call it whatever you want, but in his quest to find a means of transcendence there was nothing that Ye Tian hadn't done and over the years and apart gaining huge amounts of wealth and fame

The one thing Ye Tian had been proud of was forming a team to which he could call family, and although many faces had changed over the years, he still felt proud whenever he looked at every one of them

Now coming out the door the first thing person that came into his site was a relatively new face to the team, with similar black eyes and black hair and at only twenty years old.

Whenever he looked at him, Ye Tian couldn't help but see himself in him, remembering when he turned twenty and began his journey

With a smile on his face, Ye Tian waved toward him as he stepped out of the door

"Oh? If it isn't Su Ming, how are you?"

"If I heard you right everything is ready for the expedition? If that's the case then let's head off. Hopefully, my old bones don't slow you down ha-ha"

Cracking a joke, Ye Tian didn't notice that Su Ming's face turned a bit weird as he spoke and even if he did, he probably wouldn't think too much about it after all he's family he couldn't possibly hurt him.

Unfortunately, what happened next proved to be otherwise

"Um... Professor Ye? In fact, about the expedition I've already led the team and completed it"

Hearing this a frown couldn't help but form on Ye Tian's face however Su Ming ignored it and continued speaking

"Not only that but we found something called the seed of chaos! Which according to the ancient writings there was also called the seed of the Tree of life or the seed of sin"

"And while it promises to grant its users immense power but how to obtain this power is where we need your help professor"

*Snap! *

As he said this, Su Ming Snapped his fingers signaling dozens of armed gun men each holding their arms and aiming at all parts of his body

Be it arms legs or head, they made it clear that any slight movement would result in him being blown out something which all his years of martial arts could not prevent

And Ye Tian seeing all of this realized he had been betrayed, not only that but that this would most likely be the end for him

However, even if that was the case, Ye Tian still maintained an expressionless face as he calmly analyzed the current situation

Don't look at the current hopeless situation, But Ye Tian reckoned that he could at least kill two or three of them before dying to which one of those people in his range was Su Ming

Its just that as if sensing his thoughts, Su Ming spoke again while motioning to the soldiers to lower their weapons

"Now now, everyone why don't we calm down"

"All of you lower your weapons! How dare you point your weapons at my teacher"

Pretending to be offended, Su Ming wore a hypocritical smile on his face as he turned toward Ye Tian

"Don't mind them, professor, they tend to act a little out of lines sometimes"

"All you need to do is help decode and figure out how to use the artefact and then neither you nor the rest of the team members get hurt"

Hearing Su Ming say this, Ye Tian could hear an obvious threat in his tone

Obviously not only was his life not safe but his other team members were in danger of losing theirs

*Sigh… Ye Tian calm down, you're ninety years old don't get so worked up*

*And remember, while your own life might not mean too much considering its nearing its end but that doesn't mean the same for the others*

*Calm down and analyze! *

Talking to himself, Ye Tian scanned the room before processing everything that had just happened and clearing out where he stood and his options

First off, Su Ming had betrayed and was working for some powerful organization. In fact, he might have never betrayed and was with them from the day one

Another is that this organization was either powerful enough to rival the government or was from the government itself because, in the Dragon country, it was almost impossible to carry arms without a government permit

And lastly, there seemed to be an artefact capable of transcendence in the last raid of his, unfortunately, news about it was leaked to this organization resulting in it being intercepted and now they needed his help to activate

looking at everything, unknowingly Ye Tian had a smile on his face

"ha-ha, interesting! Alright Su Ming, I'll listen to what you say for now"

"But if you dare lie to me and anyone gets hurt, I will make sure that even if I die, I take you with me!'"

"Now take me to the seed, my favorite anime soon drops a new episode I plan on watching it since the expedition is in no doubt cancelled and start my retirement early"

Hearing this, Su Ming couldn't help but take a step back as he hah heard stories about Ye Tian and knew just how scary he could be

So, without wasting too much time, after promising again to release everyone once his goal was achieved, he took Ye Tian toward where the seed was being held under the protection of the soldiers

However, what happened next was completely beyond everyone's expectations

...…..

Soon time passed, and unlike what Su Ming had imagined with Ye Tian solving the artifacts use

As soon as Ye Tian entered the room, the first thing Ye Tian did was push everyone away, kill a nearby guard and knock him away before making his way to the seed and swallowing it whole

*Bang!*

*Bang!*

*Bang!*

Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers immediately opened fire, unfortunately it was too late.

Now filled with gun holes, Ye Tian was bleeding profusely as his consciousness slowly blurred

However just before he died, he turned toward Su Ming mouthing the two words 'I win!' after which he fell silent never to move again

"Damn! What the hell just happened!"

"You over there cut open his body and dig out the seed, as for the other team members kill them all!'

Yelling angrily, Su Ming couldn't believe he was so naive to believe that Ye Tian would cooperate so easily with him

Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that even if they tore his corpse to shreds along with Ye Tians' life, the seed would be gone forever leaving Su Mings attempt a complete failure