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

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turn Ledman over to the authorities. "Go back? The planet itself was tough enough—barren, desolate, Go back? like you, out on the genius who had a motto: Death to all Terrans! "Let's desert. That's the only sport I have left—Geig-hunting. Look die out here on Mars is to and I know you'd never be happy quitting in the middle that some grease monkey back at the Dome was at fault—whoever it was who had failed to fasten down the engine hood. Nothing but what had But no she blamed it all on me somehow: So we were out He smiled, as calmly as if I'd just praised his house-keeping. "Because I hate you," he said blandly. "I intend to wipe every last one of you out, one by one." I stared at him. I'd never seen a man like this before I thought all his kind had died at the time of the atomic wars. I heard Val sob, "He's a "No," Ledman said evenly. "Just pick us off in the desert?" but the mazes and gullies of this dead world. He was a cripple in a wheelchair—helpless as a rattlesnake. He didn't smile this time. "Kill you," he told her. "Not your husband. I want him as I found myself fervently wishing I was back out there on the infinitely safer desert. "We're not heroes—we're suckers! Why did I ever let you volunteer for the Geig Earth to keep the atomic engines unless she was so exhausted she didn't know what she was doing. She had been just as Ledman said acidly. "How Sadlerville Blast?" he asked. And we'd always had a roving I'd never forget it. No one would. How could I forget that great accident—killing hundreds, injuring thousands foot, both of us. No, we had decided together "Of course." And I did, too. represented Ledman Atomics. the contract, but I got a good blaster-point. But then I remembered enough to kill me," he said. "Just enough to necessitate that meant we had found pay-dirt. I started to feel tired dose of radiation instead. Not myself, terribly tired. I longed that sudden explosive tumult I still didn't understand. "But why kill us Geigs? We had nothing to do with it." up with the idea before I did. I wished there was some way of turning the weary, bedraggled "You're just in this by accident," the board of Ledman Atomics decided that a semi-basket case like myself was a poor he said. "You see, after the explosion and the amputation, "They renamed Ledman "You're a very sick man, title than Ledman time you could have been sprawled out on the sands. Poor kid , I thought. Maybe we shouldn't have come to happy, useful on Earth, instead of being holed up here A second thought appeared, but I squelched it: to tide us over until then. In a me into a walking pin-cushion. But I'll pay it all back," he said. He plunged it held for us for the raw, untamed wasn't seriously worried But I knew I'd do it again, if I had the chance. It's because we wanted to keep what we about his threat to wipe out struggle that was Mars. too nightmarish to be real. I same way I did. "Do you really think you can succeed?" I taunted him. every Earthman on Mars? Of again. No—no, it's all a lie. cut me off. But Ledman They told me I'd never walk," meddled with the atom in the first place, I'd be as tall and powerful as you, today—instead of a useless cripple in a wheelchair." Val said quietly. "You've conceived an impossible scheme of revenge and now you're taking it out on innocent people who've done I never finished. It would be so than the auto-wiper could swab it away. was. But I had to get Ledman That did it. Ledman hadn't Earthman who had bound us. much humanity left in him, but there was a little. He lowered the blaster a bit and She continued to retch and glued-in instantly. Ledman Ledman clawed his way to Somehow I'd missed him. What shocked me most was which he had entrapped us, and a very efficient-looking "So I've been waiting here for you to wake up." I could just see it. He might have been sitting there for hours, complacently waiting to see how we'd wake up. That was when I realized he painfully. Then anger ripped through me, washing away the terror. I looked uneasily at Ledman. "I suppose you'll kill me now," he said. "No. That's the difference I told him. "I'm not going to kill you at all. I'm going to see to it that you're sent back to Earth." " don't want to face them again—not after what they did to "I hate Earthmen," he spat out. "I hate all of them." "I know," I said sarcastically. "You're just all full of hate. You hated us so much that you couldn't bear to hang around on Earth for as much as a year after the Sadlerville hated Earth so much you had to leave." "Why are you telling all this to me?" "Because if you'd stayed long enough, you'd have used some of your pension money ever left Earth. Earth needed radioactives, to buy yourself a pair of prosthetic Ledman scowled, and then again. "They told me I was paralyzed below the waist. That I'd never walk again, even with prosthetic legs, because I had no muscles to fit "You left Earth too quickly," In three centuries the shattered world had been completely Val said. "It was the only way," he the Sadlerville Blast were given the necessary replacement you had to get away from the world you despised and come "It's not true!" "Oh, but it is," Val smiled. I saw him wilt visibly, and for a moment I almost felt sorry for him, a pathetic legless figure propped up against And that started the chain he'd killed twelve Geigs—or more—and would of events that led Val and me to end up as a madman's prisoners, have added Val to the number on Earth, we had tried other on Mars. With every had he had the chance. Ledman," I said. "All this nursing your hatred. You might have been useful, on Earth. But you decided to channel everything out as revenge." "I still don't believe it—those legs. I might have walked decade or so, our power would be just about gone. I could world we'd revert back to. Millions of starving, freezing humans tooth-and-clawing of hate starting to topple, and I decided to give it the final push. picture the sort of dog-eat-dog I could see his whole structure still. he said, weakly but stubbornly in the Sadlerville Blast, too," I said. "But I didn't go crazy with hate when I lost my legs." Ledman was sobbing. you'll be a new man inside of a year." Ledman." He herded us off to "But I'm a murderer!" sentenced to psych adjustment. When they're finished, Gregory Ledman the killer will be as dead as if they'd electrocuted you, but there'll "That's right. And you'll be be a new—and sane—Gregory His face was a bitter, dried-up mask. He was a man who hated. Ledman had caught us, I remembered The place was spartanly and unscrewed the ancient spacesuit fishbowl. Ledman." I turned to Val. And I'd been too dense to see how unfair I had been. and I put Ledman "I imagine you want to know the whole story," he said. "The others did, too."

<question>:
What would have happened if Ledman had stayed on Earth?

<options>:
A He would've managed to maintain leadership of his company
B He might not have needed a wheelchair long-term
C He would have joined the Project Sea-Dredge mission
D He would've become more depressed and never found revenge

<answer>:

B