Quick answer: You don’t need to search for a puppet eye. Enter the stone pavilion beneath the scaffold tower; it functions as a lift and ascends automatically to the surface.
Where the Smuggler’s Tunnel gate is
In Chapter 1, during the main quest HEARTLESS REMNANTS, find the gate in the Village of Lu. It stands on the edge of Yuzan’s arena, the Puppet Testing Grounds, within the caves at the bottom of the Heartless Remnants well. Find the red double door marked by a horned puppet-mask knocker and press E.
Soul names the doorway the Smuggler’s Tunnel and says it leads to Pangzhen. He sees that the gate lacks the puppet’s eye and believes replacing it will let you through. The camera shifts to a high timber scaffold tower beside the arena, with a stone pavilion underneath. Use that pavilion to continue.
How to get past the missing puppet eye
You don’t need any item for this. There is no eye to pick up, and the lift rises without a button press.
What the Lakeside bell offers
Ringing the bell opens a menu headed “Lakeside”. It lists these options:
- Upgrade Equipment
- Store
- Train Abilities
- Save
- Leave
This bell has no Traverse option, so you can’t fast travel from it. To fast travel, ride the lift back down and use the Puppet Testing Grounds bell in the arena.
How to call the lift back up from the top
If the cage is sitting at the bottom of the tower when you’re at the surface, look for the stone post with a lion-head ring beside the boardwalk at the top of the lift.
Press E at the post and the cage climbs back up to you.
