Rebirth 09: Starting from taking charge of Running Man on CCTV

Baby fell into the water, surfaced, and vigorously wiped the water off her face.

"Almost..."

"It's okay! Let's try again!" Deng Chao encouraged him from the side.

the second time.

Liu Xiang and Wang Baoqiang increased their exertion.

Baby's body bounced even higher.

But that's still not enough.

Her navel reached the height of the horizontal bar.

The waist didn't go past.

"thump!"

It fell again.

Baby was panting heavily in the water, her eyes were red.

It wasn't choking on water.

It's because I'm unwilling to accept it.

"I'll try again!"

Deng stopped her.

"Baby, it's not your fault."

His tone was very serious.

"At a height of two meters, your core strength is insufficient. Jumping ten more times will yield the same result."

Baby opened her mouth as if to say something, but in the end remained silent.

Deng Chao turned to look at Wang Baoqiang.

"Keep strong."

Wang Baoqiang was stunned for a moment.

"It's your turn."

Deng glanced at the remaining lineup.

"Xiang and I will form the base, and Baby will assist with the push underwater. We'll help you flip the pole."

Wang Baoqiang slapped the water.

"Chong! I'm coming!"

Liu Xiang nodded slightly beside him.

"Bao Qiang is physically strong and has good core strength. You can give it a try."

On the Green Team's side.

The four people, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, tensed up again.

Zheng Kai muttered a curse under his breath.

"Replace Wang Baoqiang? That kid trained at the Shaolin Temple; he can scale walls and trees like it's nothing."

Li Chen spoke in a deep voice.

"It's hard to say what will happen this time."

Chen He looked at Shen Teng.

Shen Teng leaned against the pool wall and squinted.

"interference."

He said two words and then pushed himself off the pool wall.

"Come with me."

He beckoned.

Chen He and Zheng Kai exchanged a glance and followed.

The three people swam to a position two meters away from the red team.

Shen Teng stretched out his hands, grabbing Chen He with his left hand and Zheng Kai with his right.

"Hold hands. Form a circle."

Chen He looked completely bewildered.

"what?"

"practice."

"What?!"

Shen Teng remained expressionless.

"Shamanistic rituals. A matter of mindset."

He didn't give Chen He time to react.

The three people held hands and formed a small circle in the water.

Shen Teng started spinning, reciting as he went.

The way it was pronounced wasn't in Mandarin or Northeastern dialect; it was a dialectal incantation somewhere between Mongolian long song and Tibetan murmur, which no one could understand.

"Mali mali hong..."

"Hula hula hey..."

"Om Mani Padme Hum!"

Chen He and Zheng Kai were dragged around twice by him, and they were completely dumbfounded.

"Brother Teng, what are you reciting?!"

"It's a family heirloom. Don't ask. Just repeat after me."

"I can't!"

"Just read it anywhere! As long as it's loud!"

Chen He gritted his teeth and raised his voice.

"Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits..."

Zheng Kai on the other side also went all out.

"Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!"

The three people held hands and spun around in the water, each chanting their own words, their voices getting louder and louder.

The dome of the Water Cube amplified the voices of these three people many times over, and this eerie, mixed chanting echoed throughout the entire venue.

Even the staff on the shore were stunned.

Feng Tao held up the microphone boom, his expression like he'd swallowed a fly.

"Will you accept this?"

Zhou Jianjun didn't even turn his head.

"Take it all! Take it all!"

On the Red Team's side.

Wang Baoqiang stood on the base set up by Liu Xiang and Deng Chao, his feet firmly planted on two shoulders, his body slightly crouching, ready to gather strength.

But in my ears—

"Mali mali hong..."

"Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits..."

"Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!"

Three voices rose and fell, weaving together into a cacophony of sounds in the empty stadium.

Wang Baoqiang's lips twitched.

"What are those three doing...?"

Deng Chao gritted his teeth underwater.

"Don't listen! Focus!"

"Jump!" Liu Xiang commanded in a deep voice.

With both shoulders exerting force, Baby supported Wang Baoqiang's feet underwater with both hands and pushed him upwards with all her might.

The three forces combined into one.

Wang Baoqiang's body shot out of the water like an arrow released from a bow.

He demonstrated excellent control of his waist and abdomen in mid-air, showcasing his Shaolin Kung Fu skills to the fullest.

My body hovered at its highest point for almost a second.

The waist level has reached the height of the crossbar.

They were about to flip over.

At that very second, Shen Teng suddenly changed his tune.

He raised his voice to its highest point and, in an extremely strange tone that sounded like a mix of Qiqihar dialect and Errenzhuan (a traditional Chinese folk art form), uttered a phrase that no one had ever heard before.

"Hey...you fiend, don't you dare run away...where do you think you're going...ha!"

The plosive sound "Ha" echoed three times under the empty dome of the Water Cube, like a thunderclap.

While in mid-air, Wang Baoqiang's eyes involuntarily turned towards the direction of the sound.

Just half a second.

With a slight change in body posture, the core muscles shifted their force direction slightly, causing the trajectory of the fall to deviate by two centimeters.

His waist went through, and his legs went through too.

But the heel—

The heel of my right foot lightly brushed against the crossbar, like a dragonfly skimming the water.

The crossbar is wobbling.

Go left.

Go to the right.

Everyone stopped breathing.

Wang Baoqiang plunged into the water and then suddenly turned around to look up.

The crossbar is still swaying.

Left.

right.

Left.

"thump."

The pole came out of the slot and fell into the water.

The entire Water Cube fell silent for a second.

Then the green team exploded.

"They passed!!! The red team failed!!!" Chen He jumped up in the water, waving his fists wildly at the ceiling.

"We won! The Green Team won!!!"

Zheng Kai spun around twice in the water, splashing the water loudly.

Li Chen stood to the side, his chest heaving violently, a clear smile curving his lips.

Shen Teng leaned back against the pool wall, his face expressionless.

But his hands clenched into fists underwater.

Chen Yang raised the loudspeaker.

"Team Green wins this round."

The whistle sounded sharp and clear, echoing under the dome of the Water Cube.

Wang Baoqiang stood up from the water, looked down at the position of the horizontal bar at the bottom, and rubbed his face.

"So close... just a tiny bit more..."

Deng Chaoyou came over and patted him on the shoulder.

"Baoqiang, it's not your fault. Blame that monster Shen Teng."

Shen Teng heard this from a distance and slowly replied.

"Brother Chao, you used to make faces at Brother Chen, and now you can't even handle me reciting a couple of sutras?"

Deng Chao pointed at him.

"You call that chanting scriptures? That's a sonic attack!"

Chen He swam over to the Red Team's side and looked at Deng Chao with a smug expression.

"Brother Chao, where's all that bravado you had this morning, pulling down my pants?"

He stood with his hands on his hips and his chin tilted back.

"Two meters! Our Green Team made it! Your Red Team didn't! What do you call that? That's called skill! Your hula dance is nothing compared to our Green Team's..."

He hadn't finished speaking.

Two hands pressed down on his head from both sides at the same time.

On the left, Deng Chao. On the right, Li Chen.

"Huh?" Chen He was stunned.

Li Chen glanced at Deng Chao, and Deng Chao glanced at Li Chen. They both nodded at the same time.

"Shh-"

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle—"

Chen He was pushed into the water by two people working together.

He struggled underwater for three seconds, and when he was brought out, his face was covered in water and his hair was all over his face.

"You...you two aren't even a match for each other! Why are you ganging up on me?!"

Deng crossed his arms over his chest.

"Some things transcend factions."

Li Chen wiped his hands.

"Um."

Chen He pointed at Li Chen, his lips trembling.

"Brother Chen! You're my teammate!"

Li Chen thought about it.

"That was true before. It's not true now."

The whole audience burst into laughter.

Baby was laughing so hard she was leaning against the pool wall, her shoulders shaking.

Wang Baoqiang slapped his thighs in the water.

Zheng Kai laughed so hard he hiccuped.

Twenty minutes later, the eight people came ashore one after another.

The event management team had prepared bath towels and clean team uniforms in advance. The changing area was set up in the stands passageway, with men and women separated and curtains drawn between them.

Chen He muttered to himself as he dried his hair.

"Today my pants were pulled down, I was thrown into the water, and my head was pushed down."

"What sins did I, Chen He, commit in my past life?"

Zheng Kai tossed a towel over.

"You might have been a cactus in your past life."

"Zheng Kai! Haven't you gotten beaten up enough today?!"

After changing their clothes, the eight people regrouped.

Chen Yang stood at the exit of the stands, holding a dark blue envelope in his hand, exactly the same as the one the Red Team had received that morning. The cover was printed with the program logo, and the number "002" was embossed in gold in the lower right corner.

"Green Team." Chen Yang handed over the envelope.

Li Chen reached out and took it, and the four people surrounded him.

Li Chen opened the envelope, took out a piece of paper, and unfolded it.

It's also a floor plan of the Bird's Nest stadium, almost identical to the architectural blueprint used by the Red Team.

But instead of a five-pointed star, there were more than a dozen red dots, densely packed and distributed throughout the Bird's Nest—in the corridors, passageways, the audience seating area, next to the equipment rooms, and in the corners of the main venue.

Chen He stared at the map for five seconds.

"What does this mean?"

Zheng Kai leaned closer, frowning.

"Our... a dozen or so locations?"

Shen Teng leaned over and glanced at him, his expression subtle, before looking at Chen He.

"Are we supposed to search for them one by one?"

"Is the Red Team using the exact same map?"

All four of them fell silent.

Chen He held up the map and glanced back at the red team three meters away.

Deng Chao had his arm around Wang Baoqiang's shoulder, muttering something under his breath, while his right hand casually pressed against his coat pocket.

It contained the precise map obtained in the first level.

Chen He turned around, looked at the paper in his hand covered with red dots, and took a breath.

"There's always a way out. We'll find out what's going on when we get there!"

He raised his head, his eyes filled with resentment.

"We still need to find a way to get their picture."

Shen Teng's lips curved slightly.

"That's going to be interesting."

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P.S.: Happy Labor Day everyone! Where did you all go for Labor Day? Share your experiences, I'm so envious!

Let's continue the discussion: What celebrity, song, or movie/TV show left the deepest impression on you in 2009? And which guest would you like to invite to Running Man?