CHAPTER 22“I’ll keep looking,” Matt said, “until we find a crawl hole out of here.”
“Go ahead, but I’ve already looked.”
“You’ve got to crawl into those holes to really look.” He gripped Spotty’s arm in the darkness. “You’d better start using that brain like you’ve never used it before.”
“Don’t be patronizing,” Spotty said sourly. “Nobody can just think a way out of this mess.”
“I thought you said the human brain could solve anything.”
“It can, given enough motive and data,” Spotty said. “I don’t have enough data about this lashup. And all the thinking of all the computers won’t make me anything but a fat, blind crip.”
“I’ll collect some data, then,” Matt said.
So Matt began a long, grueling search for a way out. He started by the river at one end of the erosion pocket and started w
