Ned was worrying about his best buddy.
Barbara walked over to Ye Li and said with a smile, "Hello, can I join this game?"
This was the perfect chance to get closer.
It was just a card game, wasn't it?
With her extensive agent training, she understood it after watching for a while and was confident she could wipe the floor with Ye Li.
Ye Li glanced at her.
Oh-ho~
Wasn't this Barbara?
She looked much younger than he remembered.
"Beautiful women are always welcome~"
Ye Li said casually.
Fight the Landlord could be played by four people too.
Scene shift.
Twenty-some minutes earlier.
Midtown High.
Within the landscaped woods, a green beastly silhouette blended perfectly into the bushes. Its pale yellow vertical pupils gleamed coldly.
"Thompson..."
"Let me see where you're hiding..."
Dog Couple! Peter Goes Dark! Sweet Revenge!
"Thompson, that charge just now was amazing!"
Liz lavishly praised Thompson, who had just finished a football game. The faintly envious looks from the girls around them made her feel quite pleased with herself.
Although she couldn't compare to someone like "Knightress" Jessica, who possessed unprecedented top-tier prestige at school;
nor could she measure up to Gwen Stacy, who was at the top of the class, beautiful, and the police chief's daughter.
Even Mary Jane and the other school band members had become more popular than her after their performance at the last party...
But so what?
As the girlfriend of football star "Flash" Thompson, she felt she had the right to look down on some of the other girls!
"Liz, thanks for the compliment."
Thompson smugly flexed his biceps.
This made several plain-looking but flamboyantly dressed girls in the distance scream.
"Oh! Thompson, I love you!"
"Dump Liz and date me!"
Liz became even happier, deliberately acting intimate with Thompson to draw more attention.
Yet Thompson didn't particularly enjoy his girlfriend's affectionate behavior.
He wrapped an arm around Liz and asked domineeringly, "So, Liz, who do you think is your true prince charming now, me or Peter?"
"Of course it's you, Thompson."
Seeing that her boyfriend still seemed bothered, Liz hurriedly explained, "I only said that last time to make you jealous on purpose! I'd never be interested in a nerd like Peter Parker!"
"Haha! So that's how it was."
Thompson laughed arrogantly. "That insignificant Peter could never be mentioned in the same breath as me!"
"Ahhh—!!"
Just then.
The girls who had just been screaming for Thompson suddenly let out even more piercing screams.
The entire football field immediately descended into chaos!
"A lizard! Such a huge lizard!"
"A monster! What kind of monster is that?!"
"Lizard Man! It's Lizard Man!"
Because of Jessica's special identity, news of the Lizard Man she had fought had spread widely through the school. Someone quickly recognized him.
"It's Lizard Man! The one Jessica defeated!"
"Oh my god! Thompson, watch out!"
A football player shouted a warning at Thompson. "It's right by you!"
"Lizard Man?"
Thompson saw the green-skinned monster approaching him and began trembling all over, but he still barely managed to hold his ground.
He was actually a superhero fan too. He had fantasized about becoming a superhero himself and admired Jessica for being one.
But they had never gotten along, and now "Knightress" was even more far beyond his reach.
Still, he had to stand firm.
Someone had already raised a phone to record. His pride wouldn't allow him to embarrass himself in front of his girlfriend!
Liz beside him, however, was so frightened by the approaching Lizard Man that her legs gave out, and she collapsed to the ground.
Peter looked at the shameless couple before him. One was trembling at the knees, while the other was scared out of her wits. He felt immensely pleased and grinned broadly...
"Ah! Don't eat me! Don't eat me!"
As that huge mouth full of sharp teeth and saliva opened, Liz was so terrified that she wet herself.
She lost control of her bladder on the spot and cried out in panic, "Where are Jessica and Spider-Man?! Come save me!"
Seeing his girlfriend make such a spectacle of herself, Thompson gritted his teeth and said, "W-what's the big deal? Come... c-come..."
His voice trembled, and he simply couldn't force out the rest.
"Hehehe..."
The more Thompson acted like this, the happier Peter became.
His tail curled around Liz and lifted her into the air.
At the same time, the tip of his tail shoved into her mouth and plugged her throat, preventing her from screaming and making a nuisance of herself.
"Mmph! Mmph!" Liz struggled miserably, feeling as though she was about to suffocate.
Only after doing all that did Peter look at Thompson.
"Now, you have two choices."
"First, I kill you."
"Second, I kill your girlfriend."
His voice had changed completely now, hoarse and terrifying.
Thompson couldn't possibly tell that the Lizard Man before him was Peter Parker, the classmate he had always looked down on.
He hesitated. "I choose... choose..."
"I choose your ass!"
Thompson suddenly moved!
He punched Peter in the abdomen!
It turned out that he had gradually adapted to the oppressive presence of the Lizard Man during this time!
With an athlete's physical fitness and reflexes, his body could finally exert force again!
But...
Though Thompson's muscles were impressive among ordinary people,
Peter's tough scales made him feel absolutely nothing from that punch.
It did not even feel as irritating as a mosquito bite.
"This is it, this kind of power!"
Flash, who used to be able to knock him down with one punch, couldn't even scratch him now...
Excited, Peter grabbed Thompson by the throat with one claw and lifted him up. "Do you think I'm joking with you? Looks like you chose the first option."
"N-no... no..."
The suffocating sensation of dangling in midair, along with his football gear being crushed so easily.
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