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

<passage>:
Irgi was the last of his monster race, guardian of It was he whom the four men from Earth had to Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Irgi was the last of his race. There was no one else, now there had been no others for hundreds and hundreds of years. Irgi had lost count Only Irgi, alone. clinging shelter, destroying dust and germs. Irgi had discovered the mist many years ago, when it was too late to save his kind. Urg and set them up. Irgi enjoyed beauty, and he enjoyed work. It was In the doorway, Irgi paused and ran his eyes about the chamber, sighing. block possess. There was nothing they could not do, if Irgi so willed. Irgi moved across the room. He pressed glittering jewels inset in a Irgi drew himself upwards, slowly turning, laving in the quivering chest and torso. Where it touched, a faint tingle lingered Irgi was immortal, and the blue light made him so. "I must speak," Irgi said as he moved along the corridor. "I have not will talk to them and tell them how lonely Irgi is." and the name and fame of Irgi means nothing to the walls of my city, nor to the Chamber of the Cones, nor even—at times—to Irgi himself." Emerson took his hands from the controls of the gigantic ship that "Yes," whispered the man beside him, wetting his lips with his tongue. "No use to think of failure. If it hasn't, we'll die ourselves, down there." Radium. And the Plague. It had come on Earth suddenly, had the Plague, back in the first days of space travel, after Quigg, the American all like the sleek craft that plied the voids today. But it had been a beginning. And no one had thought anything of it when Quigg, who had made the first flight through space, died of cancer. As the years passed to a decade, and the ships of Earth rode to Mars cosmos perhaps they were, said some, the direct cause of life. Thus by causing the unorderly growth of new cells that man called cancer, the cosmic rays were destroying the life they had created. It meant death to travel in space, and only the stupendous fees paid to the young men who believed in a short life and a merry one, kept the men into port raving with lead poisoning illusions. contagious to a certain extent. The alarm spread. Men who voyaged in space were segregated, but the damage had been done. The Plague spread, and ravaged the peoples of three planets. Hospitals were set up, and precious radium used for the fight. But the It had not been easy to find a crew. The three worlds knew the men were going to their doom. It would be a miracle if ever they reached a single planet, if they did not perish of space cancer before their first goal. Carson Nichols, whose wife and children were dying of the Plague, begged him for a chance. A murderer convicted to the Martian salt mines, Karl Mussdorf, grudgingly agreed to go along on the promise that he won a pardon if he ever came back. With Mussdorf went a little, Mussdorf scowled darkly, and spat. "A hell of a way to spend my last days," he growled. "I'm dying on my feet, and I've got to be a martyr to a billion people who don't know I'm alive." "You know a better way to die, of course," replied Emerson. "You bet I do. There's a sweet little redhead in New Mars. She'd make Emerson snorted, glancing down at the controls. Beneath his steady shuddered a moment, then eased downward. The ship rocked gently as Emerson set it down on a flat, rocky plain Emerson touched his forearm gently, and shuddered. listening. The faint susurration swept all about them, questioning, suddenly demanding. Emerson shook his head, frowning, suddenly glad that the others had The rustle ceased. The silence hung eerily in the ship. The men looked light bathed the interior, turning the men a ghastly hue. Gunn shivered vivid, intense. They could feel its surging power tingling on their heard the slam of opened doors, the withdrawal of the guns. They germs. No dust. Just clean air!" Emerson leaped to his side, staring, frowning. "No germs. No dust. Why—that means there's no disease in this place! No disease." He began to laugh, then caught himself. "No disease," he whispered, "and every one of us is going to die of cancer." Mussdorf came up through the trap and passed out the sun-blasters. They The thing dropped the Earthmen suddenly Irgi stared at the things that lay on the white flagging. Queer beings they were, unlike anything Irgi had ever conceived. Only two legs, only short work of them if an Urgian cat existed any more, and Irgi had Irgi bent to wrap long arms about the queer beings, lifting them. His eyes were caught suddenly by the lumps protruding from their arms and legs, from face and chest. The growth disease! That was bad, but Irgi knew a way to cure it. Irgi knew a way to cure anything. passage gave him time to think. He had been glad to find these creatures. They were someone to converse with after centuries of loneliness. But as he approached them And if he could not speak to them, they could speak to him, through their minds. Once unconscious, he could tap their memories with an electrigraph screen. That should be absorbing. It made Irgi happy, reflecting upon it, and Irgi had not known happiness for a long time. Irgi dropped his burdens. With quick tendrils he adjusted straps to metal rod and touched it to their foreheads. As it met the flesh, it hummed once faintly. "It's short-circulated their nervous systems for a while, absorbed the electric charges all intelligent beings cast," Irgi said aloud, glad at this chance to exercise his voice. "They won't be able to feel for some time. When the worst pain will have passed, they will recover. And now to examine their minds—" "I wonder if they've perfected this," Irgi mused. "They must be aware grew nebulous, then cleared. Irgi disease. Now he beheld the mighty salt mines where naked men swung huge picks at the crusted crystals, sweating and dying under a strange sun. Even these remnants of humanity festered with the growth. A tall, lean man in white looked out at him. His lips moved, and Irgi him with a spaceship, reciting the need of radium, the dread of the plague. The thoughts of this Emerson were coming in clearer, as Irgi in sudden interest, flipped over different dials. The unspoken thoughts Irgi stared upward at a colossal figure graven in lucent white marble. fame. He must have created a nation, or saved it. He wished there were Urgians alive to build a statue to him Irgi unfastened clamps, and rolled the screen aside. He reached to a Turning, he saw the figures of the four men stiffen to rigidity as a "When they realize that I am their friend, they will gladly hear my counsels!" Opening the laboratory door, Irgi passed out and closed it behind him. could not stand it saw the others stretched out and strapped even as he. They were unconscious. What right had they to It woke the others. They too, bellowed and screamed and sobbed, and their arms and legs writhed like wild things in a trap. aloft and laughed harsh triumph. his body. He leaped from the table and stretched. He grinned into their faces. "You know, it's funny—but I feel great. Huh, I must've sweated all the Emerson squirmed helplessly, cursing him, saying, "What's gotten into

<question>:
How did Irgi feel after meeting the men?

<options>:
A Surprised at the way they looked
B Confused about why they were there
C Disappointed they could not speak to him through their minds
D Happy they had a disease

<answer>:

A