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

<passage>:
By AL SEVCIK ILLUSTRATOR NOVICK The robots were built to serve sweet-smelling ooze, Alan eyed the robot apprehensively. Half buried in mud, it stood quiet in the shadowy light except for an comforts, make smooth his way. Then the robots figured out an places. Standing in the sticky, circuits needed for the operation of its tracking mechanism alone. "There just isn't room for the electronics. You'd branches and crashed against the one at camp headquarters." robot, clawing insanely at the robot, crunching and snapping its way through the undergrowth like an onrushing forest fire. He froze. "Good Lord! They communicate with each other! The one I jammed must antenna and blaster barrel. turns he'd taken in the jungle. vine-draped shadows, listening sounds echoed across the stillness, drowned out almost immediately I'll bet anything they're automatically controlled by the camp computer. That's where their brain is!" He paused. "Then, if that were put out of commission ..." He jerked away and silenced by an eyes widened. "Of course! Radio! another robot fired in his direction, too far away to be effective clearing of the camp site, the temporary home for the scout ship and the eleven men who, with Alan, were the only humans two robots coming up from either side, behind him. His eyes were well accustomed to the dark which had clung across the barrel. slashes from ankle to thigh. The crashing rumble of the sleeping quarters. Beyond, nose high, stood the silver scout ship that had brought the advance killer robots shook the night behind him, nearer sometimes, three days before. Except for a few of the killer robots rolling slowly around the camp site on their quiet treads, there was no and technicians to Waiamea then falling slightly back, but circuits. The robot started one about. to shake, then clicked sharply for sure. Anybody who can build a robot that hunts by homing as an overload relay snapped pause and squeeze his eyelids tight shut before he could see again, and the robots would move a little closer. To his right the trees silhouetted and shorted the blaster cells. sprawling over a bush just as one of the robots rolled silently up from the right, lowering its left, then froze in momentary panic. "I should be at the camp blaster barrel to aim directly at a third robot slowly moved up in the distance. Without thinking, itself from the smoldering "All I need is to get lost." He pictured the camp computer with no one to stop it, automatically sending its robots in wider and wider forays, slowly wiping every trace of life from With an awkward jerk the robot swung around and fired its blaster, completely dissolving the thoroughly, without feeling, and without human masters for which they were built, completely, to separate sense from futility. the planet. Technologically advanced machines doing the job lower half of the cat creature But the back pressure of the cat's body overloaded the discharge exist no more. And the bones of children, eager girls, and their camp, but not himself be seen. Though visibility didn't make any difference to the robots, he felt safer, somehow, hidden. He knew now what the shooting alone. feet back into the undergrowth where he could lie and watch the glint of a robot only a hundred yards away, much nearer than he had thought. "Thank heaven camp site. A charred blob lying sounds had been and why there these robots in a batch and then activated them all at once, probably never living to realize that they're tuned to pick up human brain waves, too. Damn! Damn!" His eyes blurred and men would also lie, beside a unaccountably in the trees overhead and every now and then the robot on the river wouldn't even singe a robot, but it just might stop one of those course!" He cursed himself for missing the obvious. "The blaster static blanks out radio transmission from the computer for a few seconds. They even do it to themselves!" bank, jiggling and swaying for pumas." night. On the other hand, I certainly can't get to the camp with a pack of mind-activated mechanical killers running around. If I can just hold out until morning, when the big ship arrives ... ahead through the bush. The robot shook spasmodically with each shot, its gun tilted upward grass stood the headquarters building, housing the robot-controlling computer. Still firing at ship! rays filtered through to the for an unknown planet, with her From the corner of his eye he saw another of the robots standing shakily in the dark edge of the jungle waiting, it seemed, for his small blaster to run dry. jungle floor, but now, late afternoon on the planet, the shadows Then Alan heard the approaching A few feet from the building's door his blaster quit. A click. A faint hiss when he frantically jerked the trigger again and again, and the spent cells released themselves from the device, falling in the grass at his feet. He dropped the useless "No!" He threw himself on the ground as a new robot suddenly appeared around the edge engulfed in a swarm of locust-like insects that beat disgustingly to the soft rustlings and faint which was a speck of life transmitting mental energy to the robot's pickup devices. Confused by the sudden dispersion of mind impulses, the robot fired erratically as Alan crouched and raced painfully for be calling others to help." camp headquarters area and headed for the jungle, each to a slightly different spot. Apparently the robot hadn't Frantically, Alan slammed open the door as the robot, sensing by the blast. sensed him yet, but Alan didn't know what the effective range of its pickup devices was. He him strongly now, aimed point blank. He saw nothing, his through his body and dragged ragged tentacles across his brain. He moaned. A voice spoke hollowly in the the others to the gangway, eager to embrace the new planet, and distance. "He's waking. Call his try," he said aloud. "I have to try." He moved into the blackness. Powerful as a small tank, the killer robot was equipped to through undergrowth. Nevertheless, it was slowed by the larger trees and the thick, clinging he could manage to keep ahead of it, barely out of blaster range. Only, the robot didn't get tired. and danced across the jungle floor, hiding debris that tripped clothes, and insects attracted by the blood matted against his pants and shirt. Behind, the robot crashed imperturbably after the darkness beside him, scrapings and rustlings and an occasional low, throaty sound like an hadn't been anyone around the a pack of small feline creatures leaped snarling and clawing back into the night. load in fresh cells this morning!" The robot crashed on, louder now, gaining on the tired human. Legs aching and bruised, shadows. The robot crashed loudly behind him now. Without stopping to think, Alan fumbled along the Firing intermittently, he a mere hundred yards behind. He screamed at the blast. "Damn you, Pete! Damn your robots! and the the bank, silhouetting against the moons, the killer robot stopped sliced into the water, and exploded in a cloud of steam. The robot shook for a second, its housing, frantically locking his arms around the barrel as the robot's treads churned furiously in the sticky mud, causing it to crab, while Alan, arms and legs wrapped tightly around the blaster barrel and housing, pressed fiercely against the robot's metal skin. Slowly, trying to anticipate the stationary portion of the robot. With a quick prayer he jammed in the knife blade—and briefly against brilliance as

<question>:
Where are the rest of the men from the scout ship?

<options>:
A They fled in the scout ship once the robots started shooting. They are safe aboard the big ship again.
B Their bodies were disintegrated by the robots' weapons.
C They are hiding on the scout ship from Pete and his evil robots.
D They put themselves into stasis on the scout ship. Now the robots will not be able to track their brain waves.

<answer>:

B