"Damn it."
"Come on, come on, come on."
Seeing Peter Parker suddenly duck aside and call to him, Ned looked around, then hurried over too.
At that moment, Herman Schultz and Phineas Mason were walking down the school hallway, and one of them said, "High school seriously freaks me out."
"There's a weird smell here, you know what I mean?"
Peter Parker stole a glance at the two of them, then said to Ned, "That's one of the guys who tried to kill me."
Ned said in shock, "What?"
Peter Parker nodded.
"Yeah."
Seeing that, Ned quickly said, "We need to get out of here."
Peter Parker hid around the corner of the hallway, peeking at the two men as he said, "No, no, no. I'm going to follow them."
"They can lead me to the guy who threw me in the lake."
Ned said in surprise, "Someone threw you in a lake?"
"Yeah."
"That is not okay."
Seeing the two enter a classroom, Peter Parker was about to follow them when Ned hurriedly called out, "Peter, don't—"
Peter Parker glanced at Ned and said, "Just stay here, Ned."
Peter Parker followed them all the way in and saw one of the two men holding some kind of device, searching for something.
At that moment, Phineas Mason said, "Man, can you imagine what the boss is gonna say when he finds out we're here?"
Herman Schultz held the device in his hand and said, "This thing says there's an energy pulse here."
Phineas Mason shook his head.
"There's no sign of the weapon here. Even if it was here before, it's gone now."
Herman Schultz nodded.
"So are we."
But the instant he turned his head, he seemed to sense someone near the door. He immediately walked over warily, one