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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"Backfire," said Lane. "I set the screen to throw their blaster beam right back at yet they let a crowd congregate!" Gerri reeled away from the window, sick. Lane said, "I can do that a implanted in him was working on the problem. But Lane The cool cybrain surgically Lane is through now. He has been able to outthink police with the help of his cybrain. of the Court House. The police analogue computer will be able to outthink Lane's cybrain, will predict Lane's through the window. The paragrav-paks cut off. moves in advance. Four more "Why don't they clear those people out of the Square?" Gerri cried. "What? Oh, the Fans—nobody black dog was on Lane's back. clears them out." He has even a little bit of right back at the Armory. The cops over like paper dolls, this is Lane." A voice spoke in his helmet. Tammany Hall. Mayor's Palace. Court House. Lane cursed his stupidity. He hadn't found out which one was which ahead of time. They keep The voice of the commanding officer of the Troopers rasped into Lane's ear: shrieked with impatience. Lane waited for the electronic brain to come up with the answer. Then his head jerked up, to There was a pause. "Your girl from Mars is right, Lane. The cybrain jolted an impulse through his spine. Lane somersaulted. Cybrain had taken charge of his motor nerves. Lane's own mind was know you're on my side." "I am, Lane." The voice of just along for the ride. His Colonel Klett was lower. "I'd never admit it if you had a it." "I'm sorry, Lane." Lane pressed the stud on his gauntlet again. He turned to Gerri. "You're okay. I wish I could let you out. Old cybrain they'll fire into the room, and then we'll both be dead." Gerri stood with folded arms and looked at him. pane dissolved. Lane streamed on his side." Lane laughed. "Any of them purple-haired broads I know would be crazy scared. You're A 3V set was yammering. A girl screamed. Lane's Lane dropped lightly to the floor, inside the room, in battle-crouch. corner of his eye, Lane saw the girl fold to the floor. There was no one else in the room. Lane, still in a crouch, chewed his lip. Lane frowned with the effort of thinking. "You said I had a little right on my side. better to die knowing that." "I know," she said. The amplified voice from "Lane broke through the cordon directly to the controls of the blaster cannon battery. It will outguess Lane's cybrain and check his moves ahead of time." Lane looked at Gerri. "How about giving me a kiss before they get us? Be nice if I kissed him. Lane is an insane killer. "You deserve it, Lane." said Lane, and a sheathed finger "And kill you all the sooner." "But you're safe in here!" "Worry about yourself, not about me." Lane picked up the Now the girl. He turned back to the room. awake. "Who are you?" she said, shakily. at Lane, either. They were shooting wild. Which way now? Looks Lane plunged forward. He heard the shouts of frightened men. "I don't," said Lane, unconcerned. "Well, you should have had Her large, dark eyes narrowed. "Who sent you?" "My cybrain sent me." Lane ." "I'm the guy they told you Lane stood for a moment in the midst of the sprawled "No. No, you're in the wrong room. The wrong building. That's the Mayor's suite men, the shrieks of the crowd go over there." "Whaddaya know," said Lane. "Cybrain didn't know, no more than me." The girl noticed the dark Lane was uncomfortable in his dress uniform. First and Gerri Kin sat on either side of Lane. She stared at him, violet eyes wide. "The grooves in his face, and gray hair. Gerri shook her head. "Recognition gotta go by spaceship. What's your name?" "Gerri Kin. Look, Lane, holding me is no good. It'll just get you in worse trouble. for a new government Lane said, "I'm going to Mars, too." "Did she ask you to?" demanded Klett. Lane shook his head. "She's got too much class for me. But I like what she told me about Gerri. We won. They got a in your capture of the Mayor, Lane, I'd never release They had cops guarding us. City cops." Lane sneered. "I busted out. I wanna see the play games, Gerri. I go right to the top." Lane broke off. There was A loudspeaker shouted into the room: "Come out of there, Lane, or we'll blast you out." "You can't," Lane called. maintained—that the deadliest "I repeat, Lane—come out or we'll blast you out." Lane turned to the girl. "I thought you were important." She "This girl from Mars is here." from the Mayor's suite." "Yeah, but—" Lane shook his head and turned back to I'll let this girl out!" "No deal, Lane. We're coming straight up, out of the line of vision. Lane looked down at the voices rose from below. Lane stared down to see a large crowd gathering in Tammany were all looking up. Lane looked across the Square. The windows of the tower opposite, the ones he that Gerri Kin had pointed out as the Mayor's suite. The voice of a 3V newscaster walls. "Lane is holding the Martian Ambassador, Gerri Kin, hostage. You can see the Martian tricolor behind his force-globe. Police are bringing up blaster cannon. Lane's defense similar to the one which protects Newyork from aerial attack." Lane grinned back at Gerri Kin. "Whole town's down there." Then his grin faded. him a chance to let her out? Maybe he could do it now. Cybrain said no. It said the second he dropped his force-screen, they'd blast this room she didn't have a chance. Gerri Kin put her hand to her forehead. "Why did you have to pick my room? Why kill me. What's going to happen?" Lane looked sadly at her. Only two kinds of girls ever went near a Trooper—the fear and anger, she was talking straight to him. She was good, but she wasn't acting as if she was too good for him. "They'll start shooting pretty quick," said Lane. "I'm sorry about you." Lane shrugged. He carried on the conversation disinterestedly, because they're not trained to do anything." "The Fans," said Lane. "You know why you were kept in the Armory, Lane? I heard them talking about it, at the dinner I went to last night." "Why?" "Because they're afraid of Lane said, "They told us in Trooper Academy that it's the Chi and conquered it." "We scared them, huh?" Gerri said, "You scared them so much that they were afraid to let you have a furlough me be killed. They'll actually him to the carpet, deafened and blinded him. He recovered and saw Gerri a few feet away, dazed, groping on hands and knees. Lane jumped to the window, looked quickly, sprang back. Cybrain pumped orders Again an enormous, brain-shattering concussion. Again Lane and Gerri were thrown to the floor. But this time there was a second explosion and a blinding flash from below. Lane laughed boyishly and ran to the window. "Look!" he called to Gerri. There was a huge gap in figures, not moving.

<question>:
Why are the police willing to risk the life of Gerri to kill Lane?

<options>:
A Lane is too dangerous to be left alive. They can't risk him escaping just so they can rescue Gerri.
B They think Lane may be infected with a biological weapon.
C The police don't care if they kill Martians.
D They don't believe that Gerri is in the room with Lane.

<answer>:

A