Speaking of which, it was quite embarrassing, unlike other novel protagonists who could spot bargains in the market area using their Divine Sense or other abilities.

Although Dong Tianyu possessed the Divine Sense, it couldn’t detect the existence of those items. Even if the item was placed right in front of Dong Tianyu’s eyes, it would not show up in the scanning of the Divine Sense.

However, although he couldn’t use the Divine Sense to find those items, he could use this characteristic of the items to determine their authenticity.

It was a pity that so far, although Ye Liuyun had brought many items, none of them were genuine.

Before long, the transport plane once again delivered an airdrop from Kyoto. With the experience of the previous time, most of the survivors in the camp did not pay much attention to it.

Aside from five sniper rifles and numerous bullets, the airdrop also included several catalogs indicating resources that Kyoto had found in the wilderness. These catalogs not only had photos and names of the resources but also introduced their uses.

In the last column of the catalog, the items brought up from underground by the earthquake were introduced. Because these items were not only varied in type but also had bizarre effects, the Imperial Court named them collectively as ’supernatural items.’

The appearance of these supernatural items, for the most part, resembled items that were commonplace before the catastrophe, and their powers were also intricately linked to their appearances.

Although every supernatural item possessed bizarre abilities, the methods of using them were just as peculiar. Without finding the specific way to use them, even ordinary people who found genuine supernatural items would not be able to verify if what they had was indeed a supernatural item.

As such, nowadays many people have started to deceive others, peddling random garbage as genuine items to swindle the naive.

Although this scamming trick is old-fashioned, many people think of themselves as exceptionally gifted, and so, despite the lack of real examples being shown at the camp, many still fall for the deception, always believing they have purchased a genuine supernatural item and that they just haven’t found the right method to activate it yet.

"Zachary, these are the items I’ve collected, help me check if they’re real or fake," Ye Liuyun said.

Although Ye Liuyun was not one of the deceived, when the manuals arrived from Kyoto, she quickly sniffed out a business opportunity and began to collect supernatural items through various channels before the news spread widely.

Knowing that Dong Tianyu couldn’t discover the activation method for supernatural items but could judge their authenticity, Ye Liuyun became even more excited.

Moreover, within the first batch of items Ye Liuyun brought to Dong Tianyu, he discovered a genuine supernatural item—a Telescopic Stick.

But on the surface, it looked almost the same as the Telescopic Sticks that could be found in cars before the disaster, deployable with the press of a button. After several weeks of trial and error, Ye Liuyun successfully activated the power of the supernatural item.

Once the supernatural item was activated, Ye Liuyun quickly tested its ability and excitedly shared the findings with Dong Tianyu.

When Dong Tianyu heard about the ability of this supernatural item, his face showed a stunned expression.

The ability of this supernatural item was incredibly useful in some ways but not necessarily practical in others, and it had significant drawbacks.

The ability of the supernatural item was similar to that of rule-based powers; it sounded mighty. Once the Telescopic Stick was spun at a certain speed, it could negate all damage from head-on attacks.

Not just Martial Artists could use it; ordinary people could as well, and this effect had no cooldown time. As long as one had the stamina to keep spinning the stick, the damage negation effect would continue to exist.

It seemed like an invincible skill effect from a video game, but the reality was that although the spinning could negate all damage, each act of negation would accelerate the depletion of the user’s stamina. The more significant the damage negated, the more stamina would be consumed.

If that were all, it wouldn’t be such a big deal. After all, it’s stamina, not life force, that’s being consumed. Being able to block direct damage is preferable to losing one’s life, even if it means completely draining one’s stamina.

However, there’s a major flaw in addition to the stamina consumption. The spinning can negate all direct damage and prevent it from reaching the user.

However, after several tests, Dong Tianyu and Ye Liuyun came across a rather embarrassing issue: if one wanted to spin the Telescopic Stick, one’s hand needed to grip and rotate it.

So no matter the situation, a part of the fingers would always end up on the other side of the spinning area, thus exposed at the front of the spinning and not protected by it.

This implied that in the event of an attack dealing wide-area damage, when using the Telescopic Stick to deflect the damage, the fingers would inevitably get injured.

That was quite awkward, for once the fingers were injured, it would be virtually impossible to continue spinning the stick to block damage.

Moreover, the tests showed that only when the user manually spun the stick could it negate the damage. Otherwise, upon encountering damage, the stick that had been extended would instantly shrink back to its unextended size.

Dong Tianyu had quietly tried controlling it with the Art of Controlling Objects, as well as using puppets or other machines for testing. In spinning, the Telescopic Stick seemed just like any ordinary stick and did not exhibit any invincibility effects.

Hence in Dong Tianyu’s view, the Telescopic Stick was a peculiar item that was tasteless to consume but a pity to discard, so he did not keep it with a clear conscience.

Another reason was that when Ye Liuyun discussed with Dong Tianyu the possibility of sourcing magical artifacts the day before and managed to obtain one the next day, both believed that although magical artifacts were rare, with some perseverance, they could probably still purchase quite a few.

However, neither of them had anticipated that the Telescopic Stick would be the first magical artifact they acquired, and up to this point, the only one.

Though every purchase thereafter turned out to be a fraud, Ye Liuyun still sent a batch for verification every now and then.

Although Dong Tianyu tried to advise Ye Liuyun, Ye Liuyun confidently said, "Even though most of what I buy is fake, just imagine if I manage to buy a genuine one—I’ll make a fortune."

Especially since Ye Liuyun had once used the Telescopic Stick to defend against a surprise attack in the wild, perfectly blocking the assailant’s shots without their knowing the stick’s weakness. Ye Liuyun even managed to locate the shooter while under fire and successfully counterattacked.

This incident only intensified Ye Liuyun’s desire for magical artifacts. Since persuading her was futile, Dong Tianyu simply stopped trying and let Ye Liuyun act as she wished.

Looking at the pile of items before him, Dong Tianyu picked them up one by one, seeming earnest in his appraisal but merely putting on an act. Once in hand, Dong Tianyu just needed to sweep them with his Divine Sense. Those that appeared within his Divine Sense were fakes, and those that did not were considered genuine.

As for whether a true artifact could be detected by Spiritual Sense Scanning, Dong Tianyu apologizes, he did not know whether such things existed. But without better means of identification, any item that could be detected by his Spiritual Sense Scanning was treated as a fake by Dong Tianyu.

This time, the items Ye Liuyun brought for inspection were, without a doubt, all fakes, just like the others before.

Seeing Dong Tianyu throw all the items together without care, Ye Liuyun was not naive enough to think they were genuine. However, even if the stuff she brought this time was counterfeit, it would not deter her from continuing her search next time.

After all, in Ye Liuyun’s opinion, if she could occasionally obtain a genuine artifact, the money wasted on the fakes would not be considered a loss, especially after using the Telescopic Stick’s ability to quickly retaliate and kill her assailant, which only solidified her resolve.

After Dong Tianyu finished verifying the last item, Ye Liuyun, in front of Dong Tianyu, threw all the items into the shredder.

This action was not meant to verify if those items were magical artifacts or not. Although no one from the camp had come out to confirm, the album sent from Kyoto explained that magical artifacts were not indestructible.

On the contrary, the material of a magical artifact was nearly indistinguishable from that of similar-looking objects, just like Ye Liuyun’s Telescopic Stick; when not spinning, its hardness was actually not that impressive, as evident from the fingerprint marks left by Robinson William.

It was indeed those fingerprint marks left by Robinson William that had caused Ye Liuyun much distress for a long time.

But precisely because of this, to prevent an instance like in novels where the protagonist finds treasure in the garbage they discarded, Dong Tianyu and Ye Liuyun unanimously decided to have the fakes deemed by their judgment directly fed into the shredding machine, leaving no chance for others to pick up what they discarded.