187: Chapter 187 Nunnally is captured! Lelouch breaks down.

The The Black Knights' underground command center.

The eerie blue light from the screen shone onto Lelouch's face.

He had just taken over the Red Snake Society's intelligence network and was currently sorting through the covert lines in the Tokyo Settlement, preparing for the next phase of resource allocation.

Suddenly, a red pop-up window from an encrypted channel appeared.

It contained only a short line of text, accompanied by a blurry, long-range photograph.

In the photo, a blind girl sitting in a wheelchair was being pushed by two fully armed imperial soldiers as they entered a heavy, ornate gate.

Above the gate, the national emblem of the Holy Britannian Empire was glaringly conspicuous.

"Bang!"

Lelouch stood up abruptly, his knee slamming into the table and overturning it.

The expensive military-grade laptop crashed heavily onto the concrete floor.

His face was as pale as paper, and his breathing was as ragged as a broken bellows.

"Nunnally..."

His greatest weakness, the entire reason he wore the mask for revenge, had been discovered!

Lelouch didn't even grab his Zero cape; he rushed out of the command room like a madman.

He shoved past several The Black Knights members who tried to greet him in the hallway, stumbling as he ran toward the rest area in the deepest part of the base.

The door to the lounge was not closed tightly.

Yu Feng was leaning against the leather sofa, holding a glass marble in his hand.

Su Nian was wearing a loose white shirt, with most of her body leaning over the chessboard. Her massive assets swayed with her movements, and a glimpse of her cleavage was exposed at the neckline.

"Captain brother, you're cheating again! You can't move like that!"

Su Nian pouted angrily, reaching out to grab the marble in Yu Feng's hand.

Yu Feng chuckled and casually gave that full curve a squeeze: "This is called a tactical maneuver, understand?"

"Bang!"

The lounge door was violently kicked open.

Lelouch rushed in.

His eyes were bloodshot, his hair disheveled, and the composure he usually displayed—the air of a master strategist who foresaw everything—had long since shattered.

"Yu Feng!"

His voice was extremely hoarse, as if it had been scraped against sandpaper: "Nunnally has been captured by them! The Governor-General's Office back garden! I have to go save her!"

Su Nian was startled and quickly pulled her shirt collar together, obediently retreating to the side, not daring to make a sound.

"What's the rush?"

Yu Feng leaned back against the sofa, crossed his legs, picked up a cigar from the table, and lit it: "Once your mind is in chaos, your game goes to ruin. Sit down first and catch your breath."

"How can I stay calm?!"

Lelouch braced his hands on the table, staring intensely at Yu Feng: "That is Nunnally! My only sister! She can't see and she can't walk. What kind of fate will she suffer in Cornelia's hands?!"

"She must be saved, of course."

Yu Feng exhaled a puff of smoke, his tone calm: "But not by you rushing in to throw your life away right now. What good will it do to charge over like this, other than dying alongside her?"

Lelouch gritted his teeth, his whole body trembling.

He forced himself to take deep breaths, his fingernails digging almost into the flesh of his palms.

"Tell me the layout of the Governor-General's Office."

Yu Feng flicked the ash from his cigar: "Leave the rest to me."

Lelouch's tightly wound nerves finally relaxed a little.

He understood the strength of the man before him—a monster who could treat two thousand Imperial mechs like scrap metal.

As long as Yu Feng was willing to act, there was still a turning point.

"Alright..." Lelouch pulled over a chair and sat down, opening the micro-terminal on his wrist to project a rough topographical map into the air.

"Chu Yu, take over the channel."

Yu Feng shouted into the air.

"Received."

The communication equipment in the corner of the lounge lit up with blue light.

Chu Yu, aboard the star destroyer ten thousand meters above, instantly cut in via the quantum network.

"Synchronizing data for the target area."

Chu Yu's cold voice came through: "Target location: Tokyo Settlement Governor-General's Office, side hall of the back garden. This is the core fortress of the Imperial royal family in Area 11."

The topographical map in the air began to refine rapidly, with various red and green dots lighting up densely.

"The situation is very bad."

Chu Yu quickly reported the data: "The perimeter is guarded by Cornelia's direct personal guard unit, with a sentry every three steps and a post every five, equipped with heavy fire nets and an automatic target acquisition system."

Lelouch's expression became even uglier: "That's not even the most troublesome part. The Emperor's special envoy arrived yesterday, bringing candidate members of the 'Knights of the Round'. Those people pilot custom mechs, and their individual combat capabilities are extremely strong."

"What's even deadlier is the inner layer."

Chu Yu magnified the structure of the side hall: "Radar shows that six high-frequency induction force field generators are deployed around the side hall. This thing will sound an alarm even if a fly flies in. Once triggered, the entire Governor-General's Office's anti-aircraft artillery and underground mech hangar will fully activate within thirty seconds."

Lelouch slumped in the chair, his fingers digging into his hair.

Personal guards, Knights of the Round candidates, force field generators.

This was fundamentally an unsolvable dead end.

"The success rate of infiltration is zero."

Lelouch muttered to himself, his voice filled with despair: "They put Nunnally there just to set a trap to catch me..."

"Who said we were going to infiltrate?"

Yu Feng extinguished the cigarette butt.

Lelouch was stunned: "If we don't infiltrate, how are we going to save her?"

Just then, the lounge door was pushed open again.

Euphemia stood outside the door, her face pale.

She had changed into casual clothes and was clutching a metal storage drive tightly in her hand.

She had clearly heard the entire conversation from outside the door.

"Euphemia..." Lelouch stood up vigilantly.

After all, this was the Third Imperial Princess, Cornelia's own sister. If she went to report them, the The Black Knights would be completely finished.

Euphemia ignored Lelouch and walked straight to Yu Feng.

She bit her lip and placed the metal drive on the table.

"This is the internal structural map of the Governor-General's Office."

Euphemia's voice trembled, but her words were clear: "Including the underground water network, ventilation ducts, and... the locations of the energy cut-off valves for the force field generators. It is absolutely accurate."

Lelouch was shocked.

This level of secret, even if the The Black Knights turned the Concession upside down, they would absolutely never be able to obtain it.

"Do you know what handing this over means?"

Yu Feng didn't take the storage drive, but instead looked at Euphemia.

"I know this is betrayal."

Euphemia's eyes turned red: "Betraying the Empire, betraying my sister..."

She suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Yu Feng's hand.

"But I cannot watch Nunnally suffer. She is my sister too! And..."

Euphemia looked up, her purple pupils filled with determination: "Husband, I have no way back now. I only have you. Please... save her."

Since completing that extremely deep exchange on the beach of the star destroyer, her body and mind had long been completely branded by Yu Feng.

Whether it was the Empire or the royal family, in front of the man who possessed S-rank divine power, they were simply not worth mentioning.

Yu Feng smiled.

He held Euphemia's hand in return, pulled her into his arms, and took the opportunity to kiss her on the cheek.

"Good girl."

Yu Feng threw the metal drive to Lelouch: "Take it, do some Research on it."

Lelouch caught the storage drive and quickly connected it to his terminal.

With this internal map, which was precise down to the ventilation ducts, the defensive network that had been an unsolvable dead end was instantly ripped open.

"Here!"

Lelouch pointed to a node below the side hall: "The abandoned passage of the underground sewage network just happens to bypass the detection range of the force field generators. As long as we cut off this energy valve, the force field will have a three-second restart delay."