I looked up and was about to speak, when suddenly I saw the white thing on the bow of the ship reappear.

I yelled, "Look, that thing is out again!" ”

Old Tan looked up, but the thing flashed and disappeared again.

The two of us hurried over a few steps, and I took a closer look, and the hooks on the boat were still there, neatly placed.

That thing was too fast, I couldn't tell clearly, I was a little embarrassed at the time, and I just wanted to say something, but the old lame Tan said next to him: "You read that right, there is really a guy on the boat!" ”

Without much explanation, he went to the bow and twisted the searchlight, and the light shone straight down on the cabin, and shone clearly on the board, and we saw that in the middle of the plank, a line of strange little footprints appeared, leading diagonally to the bow.

There's a little monster hidden on this ship!

Now, it's hidden in the stern cleat! The rows of crooked footprints, lined up in two rows, one from the stern to the kerosene stove and the other from the kerosene stove back to the stern, were very clear under the searchlight, and we were very shocked.

Just now, we were all standing at the stern of the boat, looking at the baffle, why didn't we find that little monster?

Old Tan lame knelt on the ground, carefully comparing the claw prints of the monster, his brows furrowed more and more.

I saw that something was wrong and asked him, "What's wrong?" ”

He turned his head and shouted, "Look, have you ever seen such footprints?" ”

I also crouched down, looked closely, and shook my head.

The footprints were drenched with water, and there was a little mud, and they were very clear, almost the size of a child's palm, and they were long and narrow, with a piece missing in the middle of the footprints.

This footprint looks indescribably strange, and I always feel that I have seen this footprint somewhere, but I can't remember anything.

"Do you see that?" Old Cripple Tan asked me.

I said, "It's weird, it looks familiar, I just can't remember what it is." ”

Old Tan stood up and sneered: "Of course you are familiar with it, this is the footprints of a child, a child who is almost three or five years old." ”

I was taken aback, three or five year olds, how is this possible?

Not to mention that there could be no children on our ship, and he was sure that he was three or five years old, but if he were children, he would not be able to run so fast.

Old Tan pointed to the footprints and said: "Actually, human footprints and animal footprints are almost the same, looking at the footprints, you can guess a rough idea." ”

"This footprint, just like that, plus the steps are so small, you can guess about the same, three or five years old, there will be no more. This kid seems to be a little Luo Guo, always walking bent over. If you look at the soles of this foot, the footprints on the heel side are shallow, and the footprints on the forefoot are deep, which means that the person's center of gravity is in front when he walks, and he must be a half-pot. However, there is something wrong with this footprint. ”

I thought for a moment, "That's definitely not right, how can there be any three or five-year-old children on our boat!" ”

Old Tan shook his head and said, "No, take a closer look, there is something wrong with your toes!" ”

I looked at it carefully for a long time, but I didn't see anything wrong with my toes, and finally he said, "It only has four toes!" ”

After counting carefully, it was true, this child only had four toes, and I was even more sure that this thing must not be a human, it should be the white white animal I just saw!

I was also a little unsure, so I asked Tan Lao Cripple, "Are there any animals on the sea that look like people and only have four toes?" ”