Comic: Becoming a Phantom Thief to Steal Hearts

"Good morning, Lucas~" Peter greeted Lucas with a smile.

"Good morning." Lucas nodded, the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

"Did anything good happen to you? You are in a good mood today."

"It's nothing, I just had a good sleep."

Chatting without a word, the two of them soon walked near the school, but the weather was unfavorable and it started to rain heavily.

"Wow, the weather forecast didn't say it was going to rain!" Peter hid under the eaves and raised his hands, looking at the sky in annoyance.

"You actually believe the weather forecast?" Lucas said coolly, "Is this thing even accurate?"

"You can't say that..."

A curvy figure suddenly squeezed into the small eaves.

Peter, who was still arguing with Lucas, immediately closed his mouth and stared blankly at the blond girl who lifted up her wet hair and revealed her delicate profile.

"Gwen..."

"Ah, long time no see Peter." Gwen looked at Peter.

"Hmm... um." Facing Gwen's gaze, Peter lowered his head subconsciously and avoided her gaze.

It turns out that she is Gwen, no wonder she is the school beauty.

Lucas only glanced at Gwen for a few times and then moved his eyes away. He had a chance meeting with Gwen yesterday.

Seeing that Peter was still unwilling to communicate with her, Gwen's eyes flashed with disappointment. She looked at Lucas and said, "You are a transfer student from Class A. I am Gwen Stacey, from Class B next door."

"Hello, Lucas Easton," Lucas said simply.

"Well, nice to meet you, Easton." Gwen said hello and stopped talking. The girl lowered her eyes and said to herself: "It's really a sudden rain."

The three of them fell into an inexplicable silence. Lucas, who was sandwiched between the two, had an expressionless face. He really wanted to leave in the rain.

So embarrassing! Lucas felt like his head was glowing.

"drop"

A slight sound came from Lucas' pocket.

"Huh?" He took out his mobile phone and what he saw was the software that he had deleted three times and was opened at some point. It was just different from what he imagined. It seemed to be just an ordinary navigation software.

Lucas frowned. No matter what software it was, it had appeared on his phone several times inexplicably. He was already full of disgust about it, that is, he was disgusted.

"Ah, isn't this Gwen?" A familiar voice sounded.

Lucas looked up and saw Thompson holding an umbrella.

"Good morning, Thompson." Gwen said calmly.

"You didn't bring an umbrella? How about coming with me?" Thompson raised a smile.

Men and women holding the same umbrella together are already very ambiguous, but...

"...Okay." Gwen said.

He tilted the umbrella slightly toward Gwen, who was walking next to him. Thompson looked at the shocked Peter and the frowning Lucas, smiled contemptuously, and left without even bothering to say anything.

"Damn it!" Peter stared at his toes, his clenched fists trembling slightly, "Gwen...Gwen, how could she..."

"Calm down, you don't think she is really with that muscular man." Lucas put the phone back into his pocket and said quickly.

"But...but..." Peter raised his head, his eyes were red.

"Stacy was not happy at all when she and Thompson left. This is definitely not the attitude that lovers should have." Lucas said.

Lucas' words were reasonable and finally made Peter calm down.

"But isn't this worse?" Peter pursed his lips uneasily.

As a childhood sweetheart, he understood that Gwen was a smart and independent girl, so she actually accepted Thompson's request. If she didn't do it voluntarily, there must be something serious in Thompson's hands.

After all, if nothing else works, Gwen can turn to her dad from the New York Police Department.

"What the hell does that bastard Thompson think of as a school!" Peter was furious. "Is it a back garden where he can do whatever he wants?"

Lucas sighed and patted Peter on the shoulder, "Let's go, it's not raining very much now, let's go to school quickly."

Although angry, Lucas was right, they still had to go to school.

"Come on, let's take a short path to school." Peter said weakly, "It's faster this way."

"Okay." Lucas followed Peter, the phone in his trouser pocket lit up, and the red and black software ran automatically.

[The destination has been determined, start navigation. ]

He didn't notice that the surrounding environment was slightly distorted for a moment.

"Ah...ah?!" Peter stared at the scene in front of him in stunned silence. He looked back at the path behind him, "...you didn't go the wrong way, right?"

"You're indeed on the right track." He said with certainty.

"How did it become like this?" Lucas was also confused.

What appeared in front of them was not Zhongcheng Middle School, but a huge garden.

"Midtown Middle School..." Lucas came to the garden gate. It did say Midtown Middle School, which was exactly the same as the big stone at the school entrance.

Peter covered his head in panic and said tremblingly: "I couldn't have taken drugs unknowingly!"

"How is that possible?" Lucas said speechlessly, "Even if it is a hallucination caused by taking drugs, how is it possible that the hallucinations caused by both of us are exactly the same!"

"But it's really strange. There's no one nearby." Peter looked around for a while, and wherever he looked, he and Lucas were the only two people.

"Go back the way you came." Lucas said solemnly.

But when they tried to go back through that path, they found that they could not go back to the previous path no matter what. They kept going in circles, and every time they came out they could only see the strange garden.

"Ah! How about we go in and take a look." Peter said, "Do we really have to be stuck here forever?"

Lucas kicked the ground in frustration. As a Gothamite, the garden would not bring him any good memories. The plants cultivated by Poison Ivy could really eat people. This inexplicably replaced the place of the school. The garden almost brought out his PTSD.

But as Peter said, they can't stay trapped in it.

Lucas sighed, "Let's go."

The two stepped into the garden, stepped on the stone path, and looked at the greenhouse in the distance.

"Peter, do you think the location of those greenhouses is a bit similar to the school?" Lucas quickly discovered the violation here.

"You put it like that." Peter observed carefully, "They are indeed very similar, even the distance and size are about the same."

"And there is indeed a sign of Midtown High School on the door. How did this happen?" Lucas frowned, thinking.

"Even if we demolish the school overnight and build a garden, it won't be possible so quickly." Peter said.

"It's impossible no matter what."

Peter took out his cell phone and took a look, "There's still no signal."

"There's no signal outside, how do you expect there's one inside?" Lucas complained.

Just when the two of them looked at each other, the sound of footsteps suddenly came.

A man who looked like a gardener and wore a mask came over.

Peter immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "It turns out there is someone else here besides the two of us."

He gave the visitor a polite smile and said, "Hello, we are students from Zhongcheng Middle School. Where is this place? What's the sign of Zhongcheng Middle School outside?"

The gardener didn't speak, just stared at the two of them silently with his masked face.

"Ah... don't be silent. Isn't it convenient to answer these questions?" Peter said with some embarrassment.

"...Something's wrong." Lucas tugged on the hem of Peter's clothes and pulled him back. At the same time, he watched warily as another gardener came around.

"Do you really think this place is normal?" Lucas whispered urgently.

"I don't know either." Peter whispered back, being watched by the two silent gardeners, and he almost got goosebumps.

As the gardener came closer and closer, alarms kept ringing in Lucas's heart, and he pulled Peter back a few steps.

"These guys are dangerous."

Don't underestimate Lucas' feelings. In the Gotham slums, if you don't have an intuition for the atmosphere, you will have died long ago without any bones left.

"Gotta run away." Lucas said in a deep voice.

"Agree!"

The two were about to run toward the exit, but when they turned around, they found that there were two gardeners behind them. They were surrounded.

Lucas uttered a Gotham curse word and gritted his teeth as he watched the gardeners take out a pair of shiny scissors as tall as a man.

"They're not going to kill us, are they?" Peter said tremblingly.

"Don't be so clumsy!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp pain in the back of his head made Lucas lose consciousness.

"...Lucas."

"Get up, Lucas!"

Lucas opened his eyes and saw Peter's worried face.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

"...It's okay." Lucas looked around and found that he and Peter seemed to be in a utility room, where various fertilizer belts, kettles, and lawnmowers were placed.

"Ugh...the smell in here is really bad," Peter complained.

"What do you think fertilizer is made of?"

"Lucas." Peter's eyes suddenly became heavy, "Why do you have to remind me of this."

"Why..." Lucas looked at the frowning Peter and found a black stain on his pants, "You are really unlucky."

"Damn it, what's going on!" Peter came to the tightly closed door and smashed it several times, but the thick door didn't move at all. He returned to Lucas in frustration, "Damn it, should we? You must be playing tricks, there is a camera in the corner, filming us or something."

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

The screams coming from outside made both of them tremble.

"Just...just now, what was that?"

The screams did not end, but became more painful.

"Hey...hey...hey..." Peter's mind suddenly flooded with a lot of horror movies, such as "Texas Massacre", "Human Skin Inn", etc., "This...this is not a joke, no matter what It feels very bad!”

"We have to find a way to leave." Lucas took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and rummaged through the utility room.

"There's nothing that can be used at all." Peter ruffled his curly hair irritably.

"Don't give up in a hurry." Lucas just finished speaking, his eyes widened slightly, he held Peter's wrist and said softly: "Quiet."

"Huh?" Although Peter was confused, he still closed his mouth.

In the quiet space, the sound of heavy footsteps gradually approaching became more and more obvious.

The door opened with a bang, and sunlight suddenly filled the entire room.

Lucas raised his hand to block the dazzling light and looked at the two tall gardeners standing at the door through his fingers.

"Outsiders, your crime has been decided." One of the gardeners said, "That is illegal invasion. Therefore, we will make you into fertilizer."

"Huh?" Peter's eyes suddenly widened.

"No disobedient is allowed in my garden." A familiar voice came from behind the gardener.

Thompson walked out wearing a New York University uniform, a master's cap, and a gold medal hanging around his neck.

"Huh? Is it...could it be Thompson?" Peter stared at him dumbfounded.

Lucas stared at Thompson in front of him. Both his appearance and voice told him that this was easily Thompson himself. However, Lucas always felt a strong sense of violation from the weird things he had just experienced.

He called out tentatively: "Thompson?"

"I thought it was just a little thief, but I didn't expect it was you." Thompson's eyes were cold, "Peter Parker."

"Do you still want to resist me? You're not reflecting on yourself at all, are you?" He looked at Lucas, who was silent, "You can't achieve great things by yourself, so you found a companion this time?"

"You!" Peter glared at Thompson, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Is this how you talk to people who are more successful than you? I don't know." Thompson sneered, "This is my garden, I can only turn you into flower mud."

As soon as he finished speaking, the gardener in front of Thompson took action, his sharp scissors emitting sharp reflections.

"What a joke!"

Although he didn't understand why Thompson became like this, Peter didn't have time to think carefully at this moment. The murderous intention was not fake. He aimed at the gap between people, "Lucas, let's go!"

"Let's go?" Thompson stopped Peter with one step and hit him hard in the abdomen with his fist.

"Ugh...it hurts." Peter whimpered and fell to his knees.

"Peter!" Lucas wanted to step forward, but was stopped by the gardener.

"Leave me alone, run away!" Peter covered his abdomen and half-knelt on the ground, "These people are serious."

"Oh? Do you want to escape?" Thompson raised a smile, "He is really a ruthless companion."

Peter was silent for a few seconds, "...not a companion."

Lucas was stunned.

"Okay, let's go!" Peter growled.

"What's wrong? Are you so scared that you can't run away?" Thompson said.

"You have no intention of letting me go at all." Lucas glanced at the gardener next to him. The scissors in his hand were pointed directly at his neck.

"I told you it has nothing to do with Lucas!" Peter shouted excitedly as he was being held up by the gardeners.

"So what?" Thompson came to Peter, "Anyway, you are just an inconspicuous little bug in the garden."

He punched Peter in the face.

"Scumbag."

"Maggots."

With each word, he punched Peter, and the dull sound of flesh being struck and Peter's suppressed groan surrounded the room.

Lucas watched everything, his nails leaving deep marks on his palms, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore.

"stop!"