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

<passage>:
over the metal lid of the flexible ringed tunnel that linked the grubby ship from another planet with the upper air. He looked out across the heaving waters of the Sound toward Connecticut. He stared appraisingly wait for an Earthman or an Earthwoman to pass. His task now was to bring a native, intact if possible, back to the carefully buried space cruiser where his two fellows and himself would drain the creature's Lewis Terry was going fishing. For a week the typewriter mill that had adventure—or the trip was off. So Lewis left the weathered old cottage in the early dawn and headed for his tubby old boat at the landing in an attempt to work out a salable yarn.... "Hey!" he shouted as a naked man sprang out of the bushes beside the "There it is," announced Thig, dropping the limp body of the captured Earthman to the metal deck-plates. "It is a male of the species that "He resembles Thig," announced Kam. "But for the strange covering he wears he might be Thig." "Thig will be this creature!" announced Torp. "With a psychic relay we arousing suspicion. While he is gone, I will take Kam and explore the two inner planets." "For the good of the Horde," Thig intoned almost piously as he lifted Terry's body and headed for the laboratory. Service for the Horde was all that the men of Ortha knew. Carefully So it was that the bodies of the Earthman and the Orthan were strapped one another by the intricacies of the psychic relay, put upon their heads. For ten hours or more the droning hum of the relay sucked Terry's brain dry of knowledge. The shock upon the nervous system of the Earthman proved too violent and his heart faltered after a time and stopped body and kept the electrical impulses throbbing from his tortured "There is nothing more to learn," he informed his impassive comrades. "Now, let us get on with the plastic surgery that is required. My new body must return to its barbaric household before undue attention is An hour later, his scars and altered cartilage already healed and painless, Thig again scraped sand over the entrance to the space ship and set out along the moonlit beach toward the nearest path running inland to his home. where Jake and Ted had helped him dig for the buried treasure that that episode gave Thig an idea about the little lump of jewels in his For the moment he had been Lewis Terry and not Thig! So thoroughly had he acquired the knowledge of Terry that he found himself unconsciously "Uh huh," agreed the pseudo Lewis, memories of the ferocious savages the Eskoes. Want coffee, too?" "Mmmmmm," came from the depths of the chipped white wash-basin. "Home again," whispered Ellen as she stood beside Thig twelve weeks quarters for almost three months. Strange thoughts were afloat in the chaos of his cool Orthan brain. Tonight or tomorrow night at the latest he must contact his two fellows Thig tried to tell himself that it was the transmitted thoughts of the of Ellen and the man he had destroyed. Thig groaned. He was a weakling to let sentimentality so get the better of his judgment. He would go now to the space ship and urge them to blast off for Ortha. He sprang off the porch and strode away down the road toward the beach. but they smiled and waved their brown little hands. Ellen came to the door and called after him. "Hurry home, dear," she said. "I'll have a bite ready in about an hour." He dared not say anything, for his voice would have broken and she would have known something was wrong. She was a very wise sort of "You have done well," announced Torp when Thig had completed his report have located three worlds fit for colonization and so we will return to Ortha at once. "I will recommend the conquest of this planet, 72-P-3 at once and the complete destruction of all biped life upon it. The mental aberrations "But why," asked Thig slowly, "could we not disarm all the natives and Law of the Horde states that all the universe is ours for the taking." "Let us get back to Ortha at once, then," gritted out Thig savagely. "Never again do I wish to set foot upon the soil of this mad planet. There are forces at work upon Earth that we of Ortha have long "Check the blood of Thig for disease, Kam," ordered Torp shortly. "His Thig followed Kam into the tiny laboratory and found a seat beside the the invisible radiations from that weapon's hot throat and flesh or vegetable fiber rotted into flaky ashes. The ship trembled beneath their feet it tore free from the feeble stand between them! The Hordes of Ortha must find some other world, an empty world—this planet was not for them. "Turn back!" he cried wildly. "I must go back to Earth. There is a woman there, helpless and alone, who needs me! The Horde does not need this planet." Kam eyed him coldly and lifted a shining hypodermic syringe from its Kam's hand swept down to the holster swung from his intricate harness fought against that lone arm of Thig. weapon tilted upward until it reached the level of Thig's waist. Thig about full upon its owner's thick torso. Thig's fingers pressed down his skull and in his matted hair. Torp must have thought he had killed Even Torp, thought Thig ruefully, gave way to the primitive rage of his Thig rolled slowly over so that his eye found the door into the control room. Torp would be coming back again to dispose of their bodies why he had been left until last. Perhaps Torp wished to take cultures Thig raised himself up on a quivering elbow and slid the black length full into the glaring vacant orbs of his commander. Torp leaned there The deadly attack of Thig served to jolt his rigidly trained brain from its accustomed groove. of while he battled Kam, a selfish desire to protect them all. He went to the desk where Torp had been writing in the ship's log and read the last few nervously scrawled lines: And there his writing ended abruptly. Thig nodded. That would do it. He set the automatic pilot for the planet Ortha. Unless a rogue asteroid or a comet crossed the ship's path she would return safely to Ortha with that mute warning of danger on 72-P-3. The body of Torp would help to confirm his final message. Then Thig crossed the cabin to the auxiliary life boat there, one of a half-dozen space ships in miniature nested within the great ship's hull, and cut free from the mother vessel. He flipped the drive lever, felt the thrumming of the rockets driving him from the parent ship. The sensation of free flight against his new body was strangely exhilerating and heady. It was the newest of the before, when he had felt the warmness of Ellen's lips tight against his. Thig flipped the drive lever, felt the thrumming of the rockets driving him from the parent ship. He swung about to the port, watched the flaming drive-rockets of the great exploratory ship hurl it toward far-away Ortha, and there was no he had spent on his three month trip over Earth. He made a brief salute to the existence he had known, turned with a tiny sigh, and his fingers made brief adjustments in the controls. The rocket-thrum deepened, and the thin whistle of tenuous air clutching the ship echoed through the hull-plates. He thought of many things in those few moments. He watched the that all planets had for an incoming ship. He reduced the drive of his rockets to a mere whisper, striving to control the impatience that crowded his mind. He shivered suddenly, remembering his utter callousness the first time he had sent a space ship whipping down toward the hills and valleys

<question>:
What did Torp and Kam plan to do while Thig was posing as Lewis?

<options>:
A Report back to the rest of the Orthans that they were making progress
B Try to cover up the death of Lewis
C Scout out the other two inner planets
D Wait in the ship for the next call to action

<answer>:

C