After successfully withstanding the psionic storm and harvesting the psionic mutated metal, Su Yao led her team to repair the safe house. Now, the safe house not only has more robust fortifications, but also, due to the incorporation of the psionic metal, possesses a certain capacity for energy backlash and absorption.

During a routine system scan, Su Yao discovered an unmarked area about twenty kilometers from the safe house. The area was shrouded in a thick radiation fog, and the data displayed was abnormally chaotic, only faintly revealing an aura of extreme danger and seemingly containing powerful energy.

"This place doesn't look simple; it might hold something crucial that can help us cope with the apocalypse," Su Yao told her team. "But it's definitely fraught with danger, so everyone should be fully prepared."

After making preparations, Su Yao and her group headed towards the mysterious area. As soon as they stepped onto the edge of the radiation-free zone, a pungent smell of burning and intense radiation heat assaulted their senses. Su Yao immediately activated her supernatural shield, and her teammates also deployed their defensive measures.

"Everyone be careful, the radiation here may damage our bodies and superpowers," Su Yao warned, while taking out some anti-radiation medicine from her spatial storage and distributing it.

The further they went, the more terrifying the scene became. The ground was littered with the corpses of grotesque creatures mutated by radiation; some were enormous, others covered in sharp spikes and tumors. Eerie, multicolored lights filled the sky, and occasionally, streaks of radioactive lightning flashed across the heavens.

Suddenly, a swarm of radiation-mutated bats attacked from all directions. These bats had bloodshot eyes, their wings shimmered with radioactive light, and they emitted sharp screechs.

"Attack!" Su Yao shouted, brandishing her ice blade and unleashing streaks of cold light towards the swarm of bats. The team members also unleashed their abilities, and in an instant, flames, wind blades, earth, and rocks clashed with the bats. However, these bats were extremely agile and seemed capable of absorbing some of the magical attacks and converting them into their own power, making it difficult for the team to repel them.

Seeing this, Su Yao activated the system's "environmental analysis" function and quickly identified the bats' weakness—they had a piece of incompletely mutated tissue on their abdomen, which was relatively vulnerable.

"Focus your attacks on their bellies!" Su Yao shouted, simultaneously using her spatial powers to instantly appear beneath several bats. Her ice blade pierced the bats' bellies precisely, causing them to plummet. The team members followed Su Yao's example, focusing their attacks on the bats' bellies, and the swarm was quickly driven back.

Continuing deeper, they arrived at an area where radiation energy was most concentrated. Here stood a massive radiation source, resembling a gigantic cluster of crystals emitting an eerie green light. The surrounding space was distorted and warped by the radiation.

“This thing has incredibly powerful energy. If we could control it, it might greatly enhance our strength and the energy supply of our safe house,” Su Yao said, but she was also well aware of the risks involved.

Just as Su Yao was pondering how to approach the radiation crystal cluster, the surrounding radiation energy suddenly fluctuated violently, forming radiation energy puppets that attacked them. These puppets were ethereal in form but possessed immense power, each attack accompanied by intense radiation waves.

Su Yao and her teammates were locked in a fierce battle. While dodging attacks, Su Yao tried to use her special abilities to analyze the composition of the radiation energy puppets, attempting to find a way to break them. In the heat of battle, Su Yao discovered that there was an energy resonance chain between these puppets. Breaking the core energy node of one puppet would destroy the entire resonance chain, thus paralyzing all the puppets.

Su Yao seized the opportunity, exerted all her strength to break through the puppets' attack defenses, and stood in front of one of the puppets, using her powerful abilities to attack its core node. With a loud bang, the puppet shattered, and the other puppets also stopped attacking and dissipated into the air.

Finally, Su Yao arrived before the radiation crystal cluster. She cautiously reached out, using the system's auxiliary functions and her powerful ability to control her powers to attempt to establish a connection with the cluster, absorb its energy, and tame it. This process was extremely difficult; the cluster constantly resisted, Su Yao's forehead was covered in sweat, and her body trembled slightly from the immense pressure. But she had only one belief in her heart: for her family, for survival in this high-temperature apocalypse, she had to succeed.