Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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AND THE STARS from all the others, somehow. It gave a new face to the entire planet. Mac and I and some of the other crewmen went down on the field to ... but does for a fairly beaten enemy. cargo lifts jockeyed among him— machinery from their own ship. They sat atop their vehicles, lean and aloof, dashing in, whirling, shooting across the field to their ship and back like wild horsemen on the plains of Earth, paying us no notice. Everybody knows him. Everybody who went to the same schools, or even to different schools in different towns, knows him now. him now. Everybody and a half. I shipped with him and the books about him seem to. by ship's air, burned by ultraviolet meet him. It was an odd thing to see—the stoker, and the Jek, who met any people from off Earth, even, before we had ever were toughest, cruelest life-form in the Universe, unfit to mingle with the gentler wiser races in the stars, and a sure bet to steal their galaxy and corrupt it forever. Where these people got their information, I except for those two. "They'll kill him. They'll kill him beyond Centaurus, and Sirius, and then we met the Jeks, the Nosurwey, the Lud. We tried Terrestrial know-how, right now," MacReidie whispered. like mayflies in the wind. We died in droves, and we retreated from the guttering fires of a dozen planets, we closer to your home world the year ditch, and we were dying on Earth itself before Baker mutinied, shot Cope, and surrendered the remainder of the human race to the wiser, gentler races in the stars. That way, we lived. That way, we were permitted to carry on our little concerns, and mind our manners. The Jeks and the "I want to speak to your ship's Lud and the Nosurwey returned to would leave us alone so long as we didn't bother them. We liked it that way. Understand drove away, toward the Jek ship. cargo. in our hearts—we liked grateful just to be left alone again. with the Jeks." wiped out like the upstarts the rest of the Universe thought us to be. When they let us keep our own solar system and carry on a trickle of trade with the outside, we accepted it for We were happy we hadn't been make out all right, even with the on these things in our own right. I screwball way they've got it set up." ships, and physics is physics, no matter where you go. I'll make out." voice. I was a typical Earthman. make with them? What do you think We were out on a God-forsaken "What kind of a deal did you deal. I signed on as a crewman. I'll do a crewman's work for a crewman's wages. I thought I'd wander around a and I, loading cargo aboard the while. It ought to be interesting," he you're up to?" "Anybody's ship. When I get to their home world, I'll probably ship out with some people from farther on. Why not? It's honest work." automatic ships. But the stranger he couldn't understand what might had what they called an stray air down to ozone, which eats metal and rots lungs. So the engine long as I knew him afterwards. We had already left on the Jek ship, and and set the cathode attitudes had to wear suits, smelling themselves for It was strange how things became twelve hours at a time and standing a good chance of cooking where they it turned out he'd trained an apprentice taking more goods, and giving us different for us, little by little after better of the two interstellar freighters the human race had left. boy to take his place. we wanted them. After a while, the two replacements let us trade with But—" and other people beyond them, and things just got better for us, somehow. of the stranger, too. and the Nosurwey, and some people beyond them, getting along, going to all kinds of places. Pay no attention back on Earth, where the veterans of their glasses, waiting for night to fall so they could go out into the alleys and have drunken fights among themselves. But he had brought that to the precise red lines you see on the nobody knows exactly kept signing on with whatever ship with green shipmates and blue ones. One and two and three heads, tails, six legs—after all, ships are ships and they've all got to have something and I—almost all of the men was going deeper into the galaxy, live on all kinds of food, if he wants to get used to it. And any nontoxic atmosphere will do, as long as there's I don't know what he did, to make who joined the combat forces. But things so much better for us. I don't their ships and, I suppose, fix them a fighting ship, somewhere, were about. All I know is, for some at last. treating us with respect. We changed, the same it. So, I don't know. The older I get, the less I know. The thing people remember Mac and I even spoke to each other that makes him famous, and, I think, We didn't talk about the stranger. passage to Mars and the Serenus , and began it all. —officers and shifts, with the ship's designers giving living being ever to travel all the way around the galaxy. THE END my sleep shift. That meant he and I'd be sharing work shifts—me bunk. What I meant was, empty during Transcriber's Note: up in the control blister, parked in with him always friendly toward me, but he of a life he'd lived after the war—what he'd done that made him different different. In an odd way, I like to to the Earth-Mars shuttle field. It was MacReidie who first found the war sat and stared down into had to be something like that, about It was the Marines that did Earth's trained to be the best we had, and stars and took the war to the other side as well as any human force could ever hope to. They were always the members of her forces in the war, was one of them. They were a kind of human being neither MacReidie nor I could hope to understand. "You don't know," Mac said. "It's going out to trade with his sworn enemies! Why do you suppose he with him? They'll kill us, and then they'll go in and stamp Earth flat! You know it as well as I do." about his kind of man. signing on. Mars to Centaurus and back, back and forth, in an old rust and this is what I got: " " " Venus, were ... " The crew were chuckling into their dug in, we fought through the last intercom, but it made the crew feel good. When the crew feels good, the ship runs right, and it had been a started "I Left Her Behind For You," and that got us off into sentimental sometimes wind up when spacemen were far from home. But not since the war, we all seemed to realize together. We stopped, and looked at each other, and we all began drifting may explain something. He and I This is what it was: " And the universe waits, dreaming. " Where stars are spun and worlds begun, " Are equal and much the same. " What was he thinking of? Make until human beings turn telepath, no I got into mine, and after a while ship, and ... happening between MacReidie and the stoker, or anyone else and the to our little percentage of the ship's much more important than the fate of the human race. It may not seem that way to you. But as long as no one began anything, we could all get and set down at the trading field on the second planet, it was the same as the other trips we'd made, and the waited for a while, and gave us our ship at the other end of the field, in exchange for our holdful of wine, music tapes, furs, and the like. they'd begin giving us something built it. It was a leftover from the old colonial human government. And the city on the horizon—men had

<question>:
In the end, what is the relationship between the humans and the alien races?

<options>:
A The relationship is hostile.
B The relationship is cordial.
C There is no more communication between the species.
D The species live in communities together.

<answer>:

B