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

<passage>:
PLANET of DREAD By MURRAY LEINSTER Illustrator ADKINS Nadine for weapons more adequate for encountering the local fauna when it was over. Blast-rifles were not Moran cut apart the yard-long monstrosity with a slash of flame. Moran, naturally, did not mean to help in the carrying out of the plans , with Moran present and allowed to take part in the discussion. From the viewpoint of the Nadine's necessary to get rid of Moran. In their predicament he might have come to the same conclusion but he was not at all enthusiastic about their decision. He would die of it. The Nadine and annoyances. If they left their pests behind, the total system of checks and balances which make life practical would get lopsided. It would not maintain itself. The vagaries that could result were admirably illustrated in and on the landscape outside the Nadine . Something had been left out of the seeding of this planet. The element—which might be much. A water-ice ice-cap said that there were no poisonous gases in the planet's atmosphere. Sulfur dioxide or chlorine, for example, would not allow the formation of water-ice. It would have to be sulphuric-acid or Moran observed these things from the control-room of the Nadine , then no reason ever to expect rescue. Two of the Nadine's "It doesn't look too bad, Moran!" Moran disagreed, but he did not answer. He cocked an ear instead. He passage leading away. He called. But Moran observed with grudging any crime simply by buying a ticket to another world. Moran couldn't Nadine . The trouble was that the covering five persons aboard—four men and a girl Carol. Moran made six. its crew would spark an investigation. A lengthy, incredibly minute investigation. Moran, at least, would be picked out as a fugitive from Moran did not know. They might be sent back where they came from. In effect, with six people on board instead of five, the Nadine could not she could. And Moran was the extra man whose presence would rouse space-port officials' suspicion of the rest. So he had to be dumped. He couldn't blame them. He'd made another difficulty, too. Blaster in hand, he'd made the Nadine The Nadine needed to make a planet-fall for this. Moran stirred, and he knew that every one of the others was conscious of the movement. But they didn't watch him suspiciously. They were alert by long habit. Burleigh said they'd been Underground people, fighting the government of their native world, and they'd gotten away to make it seem expected, and start it up again. Moran considered the story probable. when Moran had used desperate measures against them. though, and Moran grimaced. Maybe she was, but rebels learn to be practical or they don't live long. Moran wondered, momentarily, what sort of world they came from and why they had revolted, and what sort of set-back to the revolt had sent the five off in what they considered a strategic retreat but their government would think defeat. Moran's own situation was perfectly which was the reason for what Moran had done. But the dead man had been very important, and the fact that Moran had forced him to fight and killed him in fair combat made no difference. Moran had needed to get off-planet, and fast. But space-travel regulations are especially designed to prevent such escapes. for departure had been granted. But Moran had waylaid the messenger drew a blaster. He'd locked two of the Nadine's crew in the planet from which they'd carried away a criminal, even though they'd done it unwillingly. Investigation of such a matter might last for months. The Nadine The Nadine and sure, but it does not respond to fine adjustment. Burleigh used rockets, issuing great bellowings of flame, to make actual contact. The "This sounds and looks like a nice place to live," said Moran with fine irony. Burleigh did not answer. He turned down the outside sound. "What's that stuff there, the ground?" he demanded. "We burned it away "That," said Moran as if brightly, "that's what I'm to make a garden in. finality. Moran said bitingly "That ain't no hillock, that's my home!" Then, instantly he'd said it, he recognized that it could be true. The ash-covered stone on which the Nadine "It's a ship," said Moran curtly. "It crash-landed and its crew set up a as I'm expected to live until they died as I'm expected to die." Burleigh said angrily "You'd do what we are doing if you were in our shoes!" "Sure," said Moran, "but a man can gripe, can't he?" "Aye, aye, sir," said Moran with irony. "Very kind of you, sir. You'll Burleigh growled "Naturally!" "Then since I can't be trusted with a weapon," said Moran, "I suggest to get in the ship." "Right," growled Burleigh again. "Brawn and Carol, you'll keep ship. The rest of us wear suits. We don't know what that stuff is outside." Moran silently went to the space-suit rack and began to get into a to do something with it." "Ah, yes!" said Moran. "It's very likely that the ship hit hard enough to kill everybody aboard, but not smash the boats!" "Somebody survived the crash," said Burleigh, "because they set up a beacon. I wouldn't count on a boat, Moran." "I don't!" snapped Moran. world. Moran, though, would not be permitted a weapon. He picked up a poison if it can't dissolve. They filed out of the airlock. They stood on ash-covered stone, only landed. Moran moved scornfully stone on which the Nadine above even the monstrous cacophony of cries and boomings and grunts and squeaks which seemed to fill the air. "What the devil—." Moran kicked again. More holes. More openings. More small tunnels in the " They're—bugs! " she said incredulously. " They're beetles! They're the galaxy, but that's what they are! " Moran grunted. Distastefully, he saw his predicament made worse. He knew for soil, bacteria to fix nitrogen to make the soil fertile plants to large and monstrous under the conditions of a new planet. And the ground.... "This ground stuff," said Moran distastefully, "is yeast or some sort of job." Burleigh grunted a somehow surprised assent. But it wasn't surprising not wholly so. Once one mentioned yeasts and toadstools and fungi "I'm giving the orders, Moran!" said Burleigh shortly. "But what you say Moran heard muffled noises in his helmet-phone as the others tried to " Moran said with savage precision "It's not a hunting creature on worlds where it's smaller. It's not likely to have turned deadly here. Come on!" He said sardonically "This ship won't do anybody any good. It's old-style. That thick belt everywhere. "We're going to find that this wreck has been here a century at least!" Without orders, he turned on the torch. A four-foot flame of pure destroy it. Thick fumes arose, and quiverings and shakings began. Black creatures in their labyrinths of tunnels began to panic. Off to the Moran slashed and slashed angrily with the big flame, cutting a way to with him on board without his being detected as an extra member of the crew. His fate would then be sealed. But they also would be " Look out! It's coming! Kill it! Kill it—. " He heard blast-rifles firing. He heard Burleigh pant commands. He was on Nadine . They need not maroon him. In fact, they wouldn't dare. Harper were killed, Moran would be needed to take his place. He'd go on

<question>:
What crime did Moran commit?

<options>:
A theft
B fraud
C murder
D treason

<answer>:

C