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

Within minutes, the footsteps disappeared around the corner of the stairs.

Chen He made his way to the corner of the west corridor on the second floor by himself.

He leaned against the wall and poked half his head out.

Saw.

A transparent box, four medals, and the four members of the red team gathered around it.

Deng Chao was pulling on the lock.

Chen He took in this scene.

His pupils suddenly contracted.

He quietly backed away, his back against the cold wall, took out his walkie-talkie, and spoke in a low voice.

"Brother Chen, we found the medal. It's on the west side of the second floor, on the wall of honor."

He paused for a moment.

"but!"

"It's locked. You need a key."

There was a two-second silence on the walkie-talkie.

Li Chen's voice came through, brief and steady.

"Received. Find the key by following the points on the map."

Chen He turned off the walkie-talkie, glanced back at the explosion-proof box, gritted his teeth, and ran away.

The first red dot on the map is marked in the second-floor east spectator seating area.

He walked through the corridor with a stoop, his footsteps landing softly on the concrete floor.

Turning into the entrance to the auditorium, the view suddenly opens up, with 17,000 empty seats stretching silently in the night, like a black sea.

Under the first row of seats.

A silver key lay there quietly.

Chen He's heart pounded, he squatted down, grabbed the item, and rushed back to the wall of honor.

By this time, the red team had already scattered to look for the key, leaving only Baby guarding the explosion-proof box.

Chen He didn't have time to think much. He rushed over, inserted the key into the lock, and twisted it hard with his wrist.

Not moving.

"wrong?!"

He tried again, changing the angle and increasing the force.

Still not right.

Baby was watching him from the side when she suddenly spoke, her Cantonese-accented Mandarin soft and her tone a little tired.

"We've looked at two, but neither is right."

Chen He was taken aback.

He and Baby exchanged a glance.

The two of them fell silent at the same time.

No one spoke again.

The next twenty minutes.

A near-frenzied, carpet-bombing search unfolded inside the Bird's Nest.

The green team checked each of the thirty-six red dots one by one, and found a key at each point, but none of them were the right ones.

The keys are different colors, shapes, and sizes.

It's all fake.

The red team also searched for envelopes, notes, and markers throughout the venue.

Baby found a clue envelope next to a fire hydrant in the corner of the third floor.

Tear it open.

There was a note inside, handwritten.

"The only true key is not in any fixed location; it is always moving."

Baby stared at the sentence for five seconds, then got goosebumps all over her body.

She quickly ran to find Deng Chao.

"Brother Chao! Look at this!"

Deng Chao took the note, his brows furrowing in a frown.

"The key is moving? What does that mean?"

Liu Xiang leaned over and took a look.

"A key that moves... Is it attached to something?"

Wang Baoqiang looked around.

"I didn't see anything moving."

On the Green Team's side, Zheng Kai also found a clue envelope on the handrail of the fourth-floor corridor.

The content is exactly the same.

"The only true key never stays in one place; it is always moving."

Zheng Kai ran downstairs with the note and called Shen Teng and Li Chen together.

"Look at this."

Shen Teng took it and glanced at it, his eyes narrowing.

"The key moves?"

Chen He rushed over from the second floor, clutching four fake keys in his hand, panting heavily.

"Oh no, oh no, I've searched over a dozen locations, and they're all useless!"

Shen Teng handed him the note.

After reading it, Chen He's face lost some color.

"What do you mean by 'always moving'? Keys don't have legs!"

"Long legs, not quite." Shen Teng leaned against the railing, his gaze sweeping across the dark depths of the venue. "But it can be tied to something with long legs."

The four people fell silent.

The cold wind in the stadium whistled through the gaps in the steel structure.

Li Chen spoke.

"Keep searching. Look for anything that can move."

at the same time.

Meanwhile, at the end of the passageway on the west side of the Bird's Nest main stadium, the door to the control room was locked from the inside.

The moment the lock clicked into the keyhole, Zhang Lei knew something bad was going to happen tonight.

He stood outside the door, leaning against the wall, and whispered into the crack in the door.

"Chen Yang, are you serious?"

"Um."

The sound of clothes being folded came from inside the door. Neat, efficient, each movement precise and decisive, as if folding a pre-determined plan.

Zhang Lei was silent for two seconds, then turned to look at Ma Li and Su Xiao beside him.

Ma Li crossed her arms, her expression complex, as if she had chewed on something with an indescribable taste.

"Is he really going to do it himself?"

"Judging from the noise, it sounds like they're changing clothes." Zhang Lei paused. "Black clothes."

Su Xiao pressed the execution script in her hand down and lowered her voice.

Is this in the plan?

"Yes," Zhang Lei said, "but at the time I thought he was just writing it for fun."

Then came the sound of something opening from inside the door—the zipper of a storage bag, short and crisp.

Zhang Lei spoke again through the crack in the door.

"Chen Yang, you really don't need to do it yourself..."

"Who will be keeping an eye on things in the control room later?"

The voices inside the door interrupted him; they were as calm as if they were discussing tomorrow's filming schedule, without the slightest hesitation.

Zhang Lei closed his eyes briefly.

"I."

"Did you give Zheng Hao the timing schedule for the lighting changes?"

"I gave it to him, and he's confirmed it; there's no problem."

"What about the broadcast?"

"Feng Tao is here the whole time. The voice changer is all set up, and you can go on the channel anytime."

"it is good."

Another silence fell. Brief, like a breath being held back.

Then, a sound came from inside the door.

An extremely faint metallic clanging sound.

Ding-dong.

Ding-dong.

Two sounds.

Ma Li shuddered and instinctively took half a step back, her heel hitting the ground with a crack.

"This, this is..."

"A bell," Su Xiao said calmly.

But the execution script in her hand was slightly deformed from being squeezed, with the edges curling up. "He tied the bell to his ankle."

Ma Li suddenly turned her head and glared at Zhang Lei, her eyes filled with disbelief and accusation.

"Are you guys even using your brains when you're making this show?!"

Zhang Lei shrugged helplessly and put his hands behind his back.

"He included this part in the proposal. I asked him about it at the time, and he said that the person ringing the bell had to come in person, and that it wouldn't be as effective to find someone else to do it."

Ma Li stared at him.

"and then?"

"Then I stopped trying to persuade them."

Ma Li covered her face.

The three people stood outside the door, and none of them spoke again.

The noise inside the door completely stopped.

There were no footsteps, no rustling of clothes, no sound at all.

It was as if the people inside had never existed.

Only those two tinkling sounds still echoed in the corridor, light and airy, yet landing with a resounding thud.

Su Xiao glanced down at the script, turned to the page about the ultimate mission, and stopped her finger on a note that Chen Yang had written himself, in his usual messy handwriting.

"The bell is the key, and the key is always running."

She closed the script.