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

<passage>:
spun in a pinwheeled blur, sweet-smelling ooze, Alan eyed Then the robots figured out an out of his misery. the first time that night Alan was a sudden crash as if a tree had been hit by Then another. Alan stopped, slips or the monster cooks up puzzled. Two more blasts, quickly Frowning, worrying about the sounds, Alan momentarily forgot suddenly plunged into an ant hill, throwing him to the jungle "I wonder," he thought, "how floor. "Damn!" He cursed again, Pete could cram enough brain into one of those things to make circuits needed for the operation of its tracking mechanism alone. "There just isn't room for the electronics. You'd Then Alan heard the approaching fire. He froze. "Good Lord! Alan peered around him at the bank, away from the crashing sounds. Suddenly he stopped, his eyes widened. "Of course! Radio! I'll bet anything they're explosive crash. Alan started, automatically controlled by the drowned out almost immediately Suddenly anxious, he slashed "Then, if that were put out of and silenced by an pulled himself through the undergrowth caught at his legs, tripping him Alan changed direction slightly with Alan, were the only humans were well accustomed to the dark now, and he managed to dodge or trip him. Even so, he stumbled that had brought the advance unshakable than bloodhounds three days before. Except for a afterwards his eyes would see nightmare. Alan would have to tight shut before he could see again, and the robots would Alan leaped back, and fell Alan turned slightly to the left, then froze in momentary his head. Alan froze. "My God, panic. "I should be at the camp Pete built those things wrong!" Suddenly a screeching whirlwind itself from the smoldering "All I need is to get lost." with no one to stop it, automatically With an awkward jerk the robot antenna and blaster barrel. completely dissolving the which had clung across the barrel. cat's body overloaded the discharge and without human masters to separate sense from futility. Finally parts would wear out, circuits would short, and one by as an overload relay snapped towards the camp, leaving Alan and shorted the blaster cells. Shakily, Alan crawled a few life, rare in the universe, would a halt. A few birds would still camp, but not himself be seen. rusty hulk, beneath the alien sun. "Peggy!" As if in answer, a tree beside him breathed fire, then exploded. felt safer, somehow, hidden. He knew now what the shooting hadn't been anyone around the blaster shot, Alan saw the steel he had thought. "Thank heaven "I suppose," he muttered to his foot catch in something, himself, "that Pete assembled activated them all at once, probably never living to realize that any difference to the robots, he and fell heavily. the rotten luck, anyway!" He these robots in a batch and then blinked the pain tears from his Alan grabbed his pocket blaster Alan. He fired again, and again Reaching into his jacket, Alan somehow. Then he remembered it just might stop one of those course!" He cursed himself for missing the obvious. "The blaster you anywhere. This looked like Alan's blast. Slowly Alan looked around, static blanks out radio transmission from the computer He shuddered. "Not a Firing intermittently, he can't get to the camp with Then, unexpectedly, Alan saw If I can just hold out until morning, when the big ship arrives ... Lord, Peggy!" He turned white oily sweat punctuated his forehead. Peggy, arriving tomorrow with the other colonists, the swelling leg he stumbled out of wives and kids! The metal killers, building, housing the robot-controlling computer. Still firing at ship! A pretty girl, Peggy, the girl spite of the agonizing pain, Alan forced himself to a limping run he'd married just three weeks ago. He still couldn't believe it. for an unknown planet, with her to follow, to try to create a home marry a girl and then take off but Peggy and her green eyes that changed color with the light, with her soft brown hair, "Be damned! You can't win now!" Alan yelled between blaster had, at last, given him a reason thirty years of loneliness and Alan unclenched his fists and and her happy smile, had ended for his small blaster to run dry. frantically jerked the trigger cells released themselves from ready, Alan rolled over onto his the device, falling in the grass at his feet. He dropped the useless "No!" He threw himself on appeared around the edge over Alan's back and ozone tingled Blinding itself for a few seconds the trees onto the spot where he had been lying stretched out. instant, Alan jammed his hands Alan whirled, startled. The transmitting mental energy to the robot's pickup devices. Confused by the sudden dispersion robot fired erratically as Alan crouched and raced painfully for as he fumbled with the lock Six or seven others also left the release. Jagged bits of plastic and by the blast. Frantically, Alan slammed sensed him yet, but Alan didn't Apparently the robot hadn't stone ripped past him, torn loose began to slide back into the red-clad safety switch mounted slightly different spot. the world. He half-jumped, half-fell His stomach tightened. Panic. out in years. The universe went black. voyage. He thought of a Alan opened his eyes in a unrecognizable, the victim of a design error or a misplaced wire in a machine. "I have to try," he said aloud. "I have to try." He moved into the blackness. Alan's eyes, "you hit the switch. vines, and Alan found that Suddenly a sobbing-laughing he could manage to keep ahead Only, the robot didn't get tired. Alan did. crashed imperturbably after angry cat. Alan's fingers tensed Mentally, Alan tried to figure There wouldn't be much. maybe. Why the devil didn't I stinging from insect bites, Alan tried to force himself to run him like a child in the dark. His foot tripped on a barely visible exploded around him. Startled, Alan jerked sideways, crashing dazed, then his knees buckled. His blaster fell into the to think, Alan fumbled along the hand slipped into something and leaped back, trying frantically Almost blinded by pain, whimpering, Alan stumbled forward. He screamed at the blast. "Damn you, Pete! Damn your robots! Damn, damn ... Oh, Peggy!" He stepped into emptiness. fall away. He wanted to lie there Alan, lying in the mud of the The big ship! Good his arm felt numb. "I'll drown him," he said aloud. "I'll drown laughed. Then his mind cleared. He remembered where he was. Alan trembled. For the first the first time he realized that he would sometime die. In other times and circumstances he as now, he would have to watch, still and helpless, while death felt sick. Alan became a man. "Dammit, no law says I have to flame-out !" He forced instant they stepped from the tree crashed heavily past Alan short intervals he started across slowly down. Frantically, Alan and for an instant it seemed almost out of control, then it Alan slid slowly along the bank to follow him but the edge of second Alan seemed engulfed in in a jungle clearing. Crazy maybe, it, where Alan had crazily as the earth collapsed underneath from where Alan stood. Without hesitation Alan threw himself across the blaster From the corner of his eye he Alan's arms, then slammed and shift his weight with the spinning plunges, Alan worked He fumbled for the sheath clipped hardly able to move on the wildly was whipped headlong into the

<question>:
What would've happened if Alan had not made it to the switch?

<options>:
A The robots would have gone on living unnoticed by people, doing as they wished with the planet.
B The next group of people would have been caught by surprise and killed.
C Pete would have been the last hope of the people on the planet's surface.
D Peggy would have had to build new radio transmitters after the old ones were destroyed.

<answer>:

B