"Whew, let me see how the mission report puts it."
The young girl carried an absurdly oversized shotgun over her shoulder. Looking rather languid, she narrowed her eyes and stared at the phone in her hand.
"Doctor Reed Richards, codename Mister Fantastic, Rubber Man. Abilities: Super Intellect and physical immunity. Hmm, not bad." She put away her phone and smiled as she nodded at Reed. "Weakness: temperature. Any extreme temperature that can make rubber lose its elasticity can restrain you."
Falling through the air, Reed's eyes widened. This person clearly meant him harm, and uncertainty flashed across his face.
"?!"
The blonde girl giggled, pressing a hand to her forehead as her body shook. "Cooperate, and the pain will be brief. If you don't, it'll last a very long time. I like hunting monsters like you who can communicate. Go on, how do you want to die?"
"Mm! Mm!"
Reed wanted to speak, but in the airless vacuum, he could only open his mouth without making a sound.
"Oh, my oversight." The girl spread her palm and used a ring on her hand to draw a strange symbol through the air. Naturally, this was not to give Reed a chance for last words. Instead, she directly cast a spell. "In the name of Axeron's cold tentacles! Freeze!"
A streak of blue light flashed from her hand. Almost simultaneously, Reed found himself surrounded by extreme cold. A biting chill instantly seeped into his marrow.
Stabbing pain, burning heat, numbness.
The entire process was completed within one ten-thousandth of a second. He seemed to hear every cell in his body freezing over.
She seemed to have deliberately left the upper half of his head unfrozen, perhaps to preserve his fashionable hairstyle. But everything below his eyes had frozen solid. Only his brain