The present day, [Southern Branch Troupe].
Zhong Xueran had never told anyone what using the Three Pure Ones Bell felt like.
In fact, the Three Pure Ones Bell had another "hidden" ability besides Instant Teleportation.
That was... the instant it was used, a clear, detailed map, like a god's-eye view, imprinted itself directly on the user's mind.
That map covered the entire area the current Ghost Story could move around in. The instant she used it, Zhong Xueran could grasp the Ghost Story's overall size, including the location and layout of every room, even its furnishings and the placement of objects. She could see it all.
Once she shook the Three Pure Ones Bell and a "jingle-" rang out, all of space and time stopped for Zhong Xueran, giving her nearly three extra seconds. Those three seconds were for her to choose where on the entire map she wanted to teleport.
With a sharp enough mind and an absurd enough memory, someone could even memorize every detail of the "Ghost Story map" in those three seconds!
That would be an enormous help for the rest of the game, whether for escaping, hiding, or even finding hidden items.
Unfortunately... Zhong Xueran did not have a photographic memory. After discovering this "hidden" ability of the Three Pure Ones Bell, she had deliberately trained her memory in real life, but she still could not absorb such an enormous amount of information in three seconds.
After all, she first had to locate herself on the map, then choose an area as far from her position as possible. Otherwise, if she did something as stupid as teleporting right in front of her pursuer, it would not be a joke-she would simply be dead.
So Zhong Xueran had only glanced at the map of [Yellow Springs