Firecracker wanted to give her young boyfriend a taste of the cruel reality of the World, to show him how difficult it is for adults stepping into society, and to make him realize her own maturity, intelligence, and excellence.
"Online information says You are only twenty-seven, but You look at least thirty right now."
Russell shook his head, saying indifferently.
"If You lose some weight, train a bit, and become more agile, it would also benefit Your Superhero career."
"My Superhero career..."
Firecracker couldn't help but laugh, not expecting Russell, who was still in school, to give her pointers on her Superhero path.
"Even if I trained myself to be more skilled than an elite female special forces soldier, it wouldn't help my career in the slightest."
Firecracker's ability is to charge objects to explode, just like Rex-Splode.
But if Rex's ability had some power, You could get a sense of her ability's power from her nickname.
With her ability, if she didn't sell herself and cling to someone powerful, her Superhero career's ceiling was pretty much fixed.
"If You lose weight and train yourself to become stronger, I'll consider letting You have Your wish. Haven't You always wanted to get revenge on Starlight, to make her kneel before You, crying and full of regret?"
It's worth mentioning that Russell had already collected Firecracker's template last night.
Perhaps that counted as defeating her.
After all, she was injured.
He didn't like Firecracker's current appearance, and Firecracker didn't seem to like it either. At the same time, he wanted to experiment on Firecracker to see if he could duplicate the template a second time after someone's power changed.
"You?"
Firecracker was stunned, as if she had heard some delirium, her expression strange.
"How would You help me?"
"You'll know then." Russell knew she didn't believe him. He gave her a deep look, and the next second, he disappeared from where he stood, a strong gust of wind sweeping through the room as he left.
Firecracker's hair was flying wildly as she sat on the bed.
When she realized Russell had disappeared, she blinked in a daze, belatedly realizing that she might have gotten drunk last night and found a superpowered person who was still in school?
Could it be that he was attending Godolkin University, the only Superhero university under Vought?
And his ability seemed very powerful—a speedster?
At this moment, Firecracker couldn't help but entertain a glimmer of fantasy. Just when she had given up on revenge in despair, she suddenly seemed to vaguely see a ray of hope.
Could it be that this boyfriend she had only spent one night with truly had the ability to help her get revenge?
She quickly grabbed her computer to search for outstanding students at Godolkin University, but after a search... she couldn't find him?
Firecracker was stunned.
...
After leaving Firecracker's home, estimating that there was still some time before attending the Invincible World, Russell figured he still had enough time to casually kill a Superhero before going to school.
Above Seattle.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
In the biting high altitude, with the cold wind whistling in his ears, the man in the dark blue suit was like Icarus from Greek mythology excitedly flying towards the Sun, his eyes only on the distant Sun in space.
His White cape flapped in the thin atmosphere, ice crystals condensed on the decorative silver lines on his shoulders, reflecting a cold light.
A blonde woman was held in his arms like a rag doll. Her originally delicate red lips had turned bluish-purple, and she was trembling.
"Please, stop."
The college student was originally very happy to be able to fly into the sky with a Superhero, believing that this thrilling and rare experience was enough to brag about to her girlfriends for a lifetime.
But soon, her teeth began to chatter uncontrollably, partly from fear and partly from the biting cold.
Great Wide Wonder held her and flew higher and higher, higher and higher. In the blink of an eye, they were tens of thousands of miles up.
"Stop... It's too cold... Please..." As the altitude continued to rise, the blonde student's face turned pale. One finger desperately clutched his cape, while the other hand grabbed her own neck.
She was suffocating.
"Higher! Closer to the Sun!" The beautiful, fragile young life in his arms was gradually begging in despair. Great Wide Wonder took a deep, intoxicated breath, a morbid fanaticism flickering in his blue eyes.
His body of steel couldn't feel the mere sub-zero cold.
"Not enough, not enough."
Great Wide Wonder couldn't wait to reproduce that beautiful scene once again.
"The beauty hasn't arrived yet."
The man laughed maniacally, suddenly accelerating violently as he broke through the stratosphere.
When the woman in his arms was frozen into an ice sculpture by the severe cold of tens of degrees below zero, he would gently let go, admiring the elegant posture of this "artwork" he had created, slowly rotating in near-Earth orbit.
The vacuum would freeze their last teardrops into diamond-like crystals, sparkling in the sunlight.
Entering the familiar mesosphere within the atmosphere, a terrifying altitude that even airplanes couldn't reach, the temperature plummeted further.
Suddenly, the exhilarated Great Wide Wonder saw an unfamiliar scene in the previously boundless atmosphere.
"Finally found You."
He turned his head. A handsome black-haired man with sharp features was greeting him.
"Hmm?"
Great Wide Wonder was stunned for a moment. The next second, he was punched and sent flying, and the woman who was about to suffocate in his arms was snatched away.
"You dare to attack me!"
After tumbling a few times in the air, Great Wide Wonder stabilized his body and then became enraged, about to find that young superpowered person who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth to teach him a lesson.
Don't think that just because You can also fly, You can challenge the powerful 'Great Wide Wonder'.
But the person's figure was gone from his sight. He looked left and right but couldn't find him.
"Did he run away?"
As Great Wide Wonder was wondering.
Someone behind him tapped his shoulder.
"Looking for me?"
The young man in the tracksuit stood suspended behind him with his arms crossed. Although he was smiling, his eyes held no hint of amusement.
"You dare to appear before me again!"
Great Wide Wonder threw a punch and smashed it fiercely towards that irritating young face.
Only after his fist went out did he realize that he seemed to have overlooked something.
Wait, where did that woman go?
A cold iron hand pressed onto his face, gripping his head like an iron claw. The terrifying force was almost enough to crush his skull into pieces. Through the gaps between the fingers, Great Wide Wonder's eyes widened in terror as he looked at that face, which was indifferent with a hint of disgust.
"You really like taking people on high-altitude joyrides?
I'll satisfy You."
A cold voice entered his ears. Cold sweat dripped from Great Wide Wonder's forehead, and he finally reacted to where that woman might have gone.
She... She was sent back to the ground dozens of kilometers away by this young man in the one or two seconds he had just disappeared.
How is that possible!
In other words, this young man's flying speed was at least above a hundred times the speed of sound!
This speed, this power...
Great Wide Wonder suddenly had an ominous premonition. The next second, the World he saw out of the corner of his eye became distorted and blurry. The air resistance from the high-speed flight almost solidified, and the atmosphere rubbed against his body, generating high-temperature flames.
"It hurts so much, my skin is burning!"