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

The water splashed, and the pool looked like it had been hit by a depth charge.

When Chen He emerged from the water, he was completely dazed.

He clapped his hands twice on the water, then stepped firmly to the bottom of the pool and wiped the water off his face.

His hair was all over his forehead, his eyes were squinting, his mouth was open, and he was breathing heavily.

"Ptooey... ptooey ptooey..."

He spat out two mouthfuls of water and smacked his lips.

"What does this water taste like?"

Shen Teng stood two meters away, the water up to his chest, staring at him expressionlessly.

"It smells like disinfectant."

"You could taste it?"

"I don't want to drink it! It was forced down my throat!"

Chen He wiped his face and looked up at the horizontal bar.

The silver rod is no longer in the slot.

The pole fell off.

He stood in the water, catching his breath, and began to replay the scene from those few seconds in his mind.

He used all his strength at the moment of takeoff. Li Chen and Zheng Kai pushed upwards at the same time, and their shoulders propelled him out like a catapult.

The force of that impact was much greater than he had anticipated; he shot out of the water like a wobbly cannonball, screaming in agony.

At this point, things are actually not too bad.

His waist was above the pole.

He remembered this very clearly. The moment his body flew upwards, he felt his lower back glide past the horizontal bar, and a cool metallic sensation swept over his waist.

It's over.

But the problem lies in the second half.

His body was completely out of control in mid-air.

Jumping in water is unlike jumping on land. There is no stable support point. If you kick your legs in the wrong direction, your whole body will start to spin in the air.

His upper body went over, but his lower body didn't follow the correct rotation trajectory. Instead of cleanly sweeping over the bar, his legs swung out crookedly to the side.

With a "smack," his right foot hooked firmly onto the horizontal bar.

It just hung there.

The person was hanging upside down on a 1.8-meter-high horizontal bar in an extremely absurd posture, like a salted fish being dried on a bamboo pole.

He remembers that moment when his mind went blank.

Head down, blood rushed to his forehead, and all he could see was the azure blue pool water.

The bar was digging painfully into the back of his legs, but he was hanging on it, unable to go up or down.

Then, the crossbar couldn't withstand the strain.

With a "click," the lever came out of the slot.

The person and the pole were both thrown into the water.

That's the source of that loud noise.

Standing in the water, Chen He recalled the entire process, and his expression gradually turned one of utter despair.

"So my waist went too far... or did my foot hook the bar?"

He muttered to himself, his voice filled with resentment.

Shen Teng nodded.

"Your back is definitely too long."

He paused for a moment.

"But your right foot drew a very graceful arc in the air and hooked the bar precisely."

"That level of precision is even harder to achieve than a normal pole clear."

Chen He glared at him.

"Could you please not use the word 'beautiful'?"

Shen Teng thought for a moment.

"Disheveled."

"..."

Li Chen walked over from under the horizontal bar, water dripping down his shoulders.

He was pushed underwater by the reaction force of Chen He's kick, and he has only just recovered.

He wrung out the water from his sleeve and looked at Chen He.

"The takeoff direction was off."

Chen He wiped his face. "I know, you can't get any leverage in the water. When you try to push, your feet slip and you fall to the side."

Li Chen nodded.

"Don't pedal by yourself the second time."

"What do you mean?"

"Zheng Kai and I will push you upwards. You don't need to kick; just tighten your legs and straighten your body, and we'll control the direction."

Chen He was taken aback.

"So I'm just going to be launched out like...like a cannonball?"

Li Chen glanced at him.

"right."

Zheng Kai swam over from the side and chimed in.

"Hehe, just think of yourself as a human punching bag. We'll take care of throwing, and you'll take care of flying."

"Could we use a different analogy?"

"cannot."

The stagehands have already come over and put the crossbar back into the slot.

Chen Yang's voice came through the loudspeaker, echoing under the empty dome of the Water Cube.

"Green Team, first attempt, failed."

"Two chances left."

Chen He wiped his face and glared hatefully at the horizontal bar.

"Again."

Li Chen spoke in a deep voice.

He crouched down underwater again, grabbed Zheng Kai's arms with both hands, and the two formed a human-shaped base in the water.

Chen He stepped onto Li Chen's shoulders, his legs shaking like a sieve.

Zheng Kai supported his waist from the side.

"Are you ready?" Li Chen asked in a muffled voice.

"Ready...ready."

"Then—"

Li Chen didn't finish his sentence.

A silver waterproof DV camera was suddenly shoved right in front of his face.

The camera was no more than ten centimeters away from the tip of his nose.

Behind the DV camera was Deng Chao's crazed and distorted face.

Its eyes were squeezed together, its mouth was crooked to one side, and its tongue was sticking out, making strange "boo boo boo" sounds.

Like a pufferfish whose tail has been stepped on.

"Brother Chen! Look at the camera! Look at the camera!"

While making faces, Deng Chao shoved the DV camera into Li Chen's face.

"Come on! Show the whole nation your expression right now!"

Li Chen's lips began to twitch uncontrollably.

He bit his lower lip hard, his face turning bright red.

You can't laugh.

You absolutely must not laugh.

He was carrying someone on his shoulder.

"Mwah mwah mwah—"

Deng Chao's grimaces were less than five centimeters away from him.

Those two cross-eyed eyes, paired with a crooked mouth and sticking out a tongue, are so impactful they're practically nuclear-level.

Li Chen couldn't hold back any longer.

"puff--"

He smiled.

As his breath hitched, his shoulder shuddered violently underwater.

"No--"

Chen He stood on it, and his feet instantly lost their support.

He was like a telephone pole blown down by the wind, crashing straight down to the side.

Elbows pointing downwards.

impartial.

It hit Zheng Kai squarely on the left cheek.

"ah!!!"

Zheng Kai let out a bloodcurdling scream.

The two men fell into the water at the same time, splashing water all over half the pool.

"My face! My face!"

Zheng Kai thrashed about in the water, clutching his left cheekbone and grimacing.

The first thing Chen He did after emerging from the water wasn't to look at Zheng Kai.

He turned and pointed at Deng Chao, who was three meters away, his anger blazing.

"Deng Chao!!!"

"You can't take a joke, can you?!"

"A sneak attack?! Is that something a human being would do?!"

Deng Chao shoved the waterproof DV camera into the hands of the cameraman next to him and spread his hands.

"I just made a documentary. You guys couldn't stand firm, and you're blaming me?"

"What kind of documentary are you making! You're shoving a cross-eyed object right in Chen Ge's face!"

"That's called a close-up."

"Close-up my ass!"

The staff on the shore were already laughing.

Sound engineer Feng Tao was squatting by the pool when his microphone almost fell into the water.

Zhou Jianjun's camera was as steady as a rock, accurately capturing the scenes of Zheng Kai covering his face and thrashing about, and Chen He flying into a rage.

Chen Yang stood on the referee's platform along the long side of the pool, holding a megaphone, but didn't press the button.

The corners of his mouth curved slightly.

This kind of scene can't be written in a script.

No matter how you try to come up with it, you can't achieve this effect.

This is reality TV.

"Green Team, second attempt, failed."

The sound from the loudspeaker was cold and detached.

"There's one last chance."

The water became quiet instantly.

Chen He's anger was completely extinguished by those words.

the last time.

If I fail again, I won't be able to get past 1.8 meters.

There's no need to think about the rest.

Li Chen stood in the water, his smile completely gone.

He glanced at Deng Chao, and his expression changed.

It's not anger.

It's serious.

"Kaiko."

Zheng Kai lowered his hand from his face.

There was a red mark on his left cheekbone, but his eyes were very clear.

"Brother Chen, let's do it again."

Shen Teng remained silent the entire time.

He slowly straightened up, water trickling down his chest.

The languid expression was gone.

"come over."