I am a full-level celestial master, you let me enter the strange talk of rules?

If you want to see through a person in the world of ghost stories, you just need to guess his rules.

This is what the Pope concluded based on his experience with the last strange incident.

Plus I have experience in playing weird roles.

This time, the Pope followed a strange crew for more than half an hour and learned all the rules of the strange crew.

He knew exactly who he should give way to and where he could not enter, and he was even more professional than the real weird crew members.

As long as you learn this, you can be as comfortable as Zhang Yangqing.

Many viewers felt that the Pope was too stable this time.

Doesn’t the Pope have any weird ideas in mind?

That's not necessarily true. The Pope was still very strong in the later stages of the last ghost story, so he had more ways to choose from. If anything went wrong, Zhang Yangqing would back him up.

This time he had no real strength, and was surrounded by novices who were even newer than himself. Even though he had a lot of fancy moves in his mind, he could only choose to be safe.

After analyzing the rules, Pope and his teammate Ryan jumped off the salvage boat and continued to blend into the sunken cruise ship.

With the experience of the last infiltration, they were more like fish in water this time.

From the outside, the cruise ship only has 9 floors.

The Chosen Ones can only enter the interior of the cruise ship through the 1st and 9th floors.

The first small detail that the Pope analyzed was that there were only 7 floors inside. The extra floors would be very dangerous, and he had to find a way to use identifiable things to determine whether he had entered the wrong floor.

Since there were two entrances, Pope and Ryan split up and returned to the salvage ship to reunite more than an hour later.

After all, in such a strange area, even if they have communication equipment, they cannot communicate directly.

This is one of the biggest difficulties of this ghost story.

Underwater operations are not as simple as on land.

Ryan chose the top floor, so the Pope naturally entered from the first floor.

The most important point in diving into a sinking cruise ship is not to attract attention on the cruise ship.

The first floor is relatively simple, and the main building is a ballroom.

When the Pope came here, he looked at it carefully for a while.

In the dance hall, there was no noise or dust as on land, only the ripples of the sea were spreading continuously.

The light here becomes soft and mysterious, with countless luminous fish shuttling around. They are either silvery as the moon or dark blue as the night, emitting colorful light, adding a bit of fantasy and weirdness to this underwater feast.

In this interweaving of light and shadow, several pairs of strange tourists are dancing to an invisible melody.

Their movements in the water appear unusually light and agile, as if free from the constraints of gravity. Every turn and every slide is like that of an underwater elf, smooth and graceful.

Seeing the colorful 'lights' gave the audience the feeling that they were watching a disco for the elderly.

After all, the Pope is old, and everyone can understand why he is watching here.

But the Pope's way of thinking is not that simple, he is looking for "outliers".

This brings us to another technique that Zhang Yangqing taught. If someone looks different from the others in a group of people, then this person most likely has "special intelligence".

Knowing that this cruise ship has pitfalls and it's easy to get into trouble if you try to navigate it yourself, why not just find a 'local'?

The Pope observed for a while and found a strange lady with difficulty walking nearby, who was worried.

She seemed to need help, so the Pope walked over gracefully.

Since they were in the water, the Pope couldn't speak, so he used body language to ask the strange lady if she needed his help.

This triggers the task.

The strange lady pointed to her wrist. There was nothing on it except a mark from being strangled.

The Pope immediately understood that the thing she was wearing on her hand must be lost and she needed to find it herself.

The rules don't mention any punishment for mission failure, so it should be fine to just agree.

After agreeing, the Pope looked carefully at the marks on his hand, which looked like a watch.

But the problem is, this cruise ship is so big, how can I find it? Is there no clue?

He asked the weird lady if she knew where the watch was lost. The weird lady made a thoughtful expression and said it should be in the ballroom.

Now the Pope has an idea.

Because he thought of an old rule: in the deep sea, only things you see when you look down are real.

There was no need for the weird lady to lie to herself, so the watch should be in the ballroom.

Maybe it's on the ceiling, and everyone else is looking up at the ceiling, so they can't find it.

Thinking of this, the Pope began to search for clues in the ballroom backwards.

The search lasted 19 minutes. He first carefully observed everyone in the ballroom, and then used his identity as a crew member to check out suspicious people.

It is worth mentioning that the people here cooperated with him in the investigation and behaved like gentlemen.

Since the man was not from here, the Pope searched the ceiling of the ballroom but couldn't find the watch.

I just saw some pearl bracelets and the like, and he took them away. The weird lady said they were not hers.

This was the first time the Pope felt at a loss since he got involved in the ghost story. He felt as if he had missed some details.

"It seems that Master Zhang didn't teach me how to do this."

The Pope had been thinking about what Zhang Yangqing had taught him in the last ghost story, and he couldn't think of a solution, so he complained like that.

In fact, this really cannot be blamed on Zhang Yangqing, as this situation did not occur last time.

And if Zhang Yangqing knew about this, he would definitely say: Don’t say that I taught you in the future, I can’t afford to lose face as a person.

I've told you the way of thinking, but you can only apply formulas, right?

The Pope overlooked a very important detail here, which was also thought of by Bativa, the Chosen One of the White Elephant Kingdom next door.

Because this is a dance hall, the strange tourists come here to dance.

The weird lady's leg was injured, which meant she must have danced before, so she must have had a dance partner.

This can be seen from the fact that all the people dancing are in pairs.

However, this dance partner is not with her now. After careful questioning, we can also learn that the strange lady's dance partner is not in the dance hall, so this dance partner is highly suspicious.

The weird lady said the watch was lost here, but that doesn't mean the person who took the watch was also in the dance hall.

Then there are two approaches here.

The first way is to ask the Weird Lady what her dance partner looks like.

Then keep searching on this floor until you find it.

You can also seek help from other crew members here.

The watch was indeed on the body of the weird lady's dance partner.

After completing the task, you will receive an invitation from the weird lady and go directly to the 7th floor.

The second method requires a certain level of observation.

This weird lady is dressed better than other weird tourists, which means she may have a high status.

You can use the excuse of looking for the missing dance partner and let the weird lady take you to other floors to find a dance partner, and thus arrive at the correct 7th floor.

Although I still couldn't find a dance partner, there was no penalty for failure and I had already reached the 7th floor, so what was the point of completing the mission?

There is a difference between these two methods. The first method takes a lot of time, but you will get help from the weird lady on the 7th floor.

The second method is simply to save time.

This is the quickest way to find clues to the 7th floor. Not every chosen one can find this task.

If you don’t find this task, you will need to explore it slowly on your own.

The pit where the cruise ship sank is on the 'logo' on each floor.

This is also how the Pope reached the 7th floor.

(End of this chapter)