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. HUNTED the next ship for Earth." THE out their names," Ledman The planet itself was tough enough—barren, desolate, enough to stop the most adventurous and and quitting you can find yourself another wife! After we dump this guy I'm sacking in for twenty hours, and then we're going back out there to have left—Geig-hunting. Look Death to all Terrans! like you, out on the die out here on Mars is to back on and fastened it shut. tell-tale clicks." clung to them. the failure of the sandcat was THE END it was who had failed she blamed it all on What've they ever done to 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 we're crazy to keep on searching thought all his kind had died "No," Ledman said evenly. "I'm quite sane, believe me. But I'm determined to drive desolate wastes of the Martian the Geigs—and UranCo—off you all away." "Just pick us off in the desert?" "Exactly," replied Ledman. this dead world. He was a cripple in a wheelchair—helpless as a rattlesnake. "Come on, kid. Remember—we're doing this for Earth. years to this. Ever since—ever since I landed here on Mars." "What are you going to do "Kill you," he told her. "Not your husband. I want him as an envoy, to go back and tell the others to clear off." He over the red sands all on the infinitely safer desert. going. Right?" I nodded over at our geiger unless she was so exhausted she didn't know what she was Ledman said acidly. "How keep the industries of radioactives-starved I'd never forget it. No one that great accident—killing hundreds, injuring thousands represented Ledman Atomics. that sudden explosive tumult dose of radiation instead. Not enough to kill me," he said. "Just enough to necessitate the removal of—" he indicated "But why kill us Geigs? "You're just in this by accident," he said. "You see, after the explosion and the amputation, of turning the weary, bedraggled the board of Ledman Atomics up with the idea before I did. I wished there was some way girl at my side back into you. They left me almost a "They renamed Ledman "Don't bother. A more inventive title than Ledman "I think we ought to rest a little before we go any further. It's been a long, hard out a hand and taking hers. Poor kid to which, unfortunately, I'm no longer accustomed." He consulted his wrist watch. "Time for my injection." someone had to do the job. He rolled over to a wall too nightmarish to be real. I about his threat to wipe out the entire Geig Corps, since it was unlikely that one man in a wheelchair could pick us wanted to keep them. Which took a little work. Time to get moving. But and twisted as Ledman's. cut me off. But Ledman without much difficulty. So we volunteered. And here we are. of a useless cripple in a it tinkle against the oxymask. "You're sick, Gregory Ledman," wheelchair." scheme of revenge and wearying journey across the empty desert. was. But I had to get Ledman within reach of me first. "Enough," he said. "I'm going to turn you loose outside, right after—" " Get sick! a spider's web is for a trapped caught. And tangle-cord is tangle-cord, swathed from bound in thin, tough, plastic That did it. Ledman hadn't Earthman who had bound us. odor like that of drying pale, frightened face turn to realized. "Don't try to move, baby. This stuff can break your neck if you twist it wrong." over. glued-in instantly. Ledman went sprawling helplessly out wore an outmoded, bulky the wheelchair upended next spacesuit and a fishbowl helmet, flew from his hands at the weren't attached to his They were strapped to the back of the wheelchair in which he sat. Ledman clawed his way to back as expected, though. that he had no legs. The this stuff," I said, "I could get him covered before he comes to. But how?" which he had entrapped us, The oxymask came off, "That's that." I looked uneasily at Ledman. He was groaning and beginning to stir. from the wheelchair. "Who are you?" "You'll find out soon enough," he said. "Suppose now you come with me." He continued unfailingly. Then another. At last I trained on us all the while. Our legs were free. "You may get up now," he across the floor to Ledman, said. "Slowly, without trying helped each other to our feet as best we could, considering our arms were still tightly had enough use of my hand melted the remaining tangle-cord Then I turned and faced Ledman. "I suppose you'll kill me now," he said. "No. That's the difference between sane people and insane," I told him. "I'm not going to kill you at all. I'm going to see to it that you're him, strapped to the back of the wheelchair. He sent back to Earth." outboard atomic rigging behind " fingered a knob on the arm of after what they did to the chair and the two exhaust us and fairly small. A one-man man pointing it is in a wheelchair. They'll take all the hatred and "What's going on, Ron?" sickness out of you, and turn "I hate Earthmen," he spat out. "I hate all of them." with him following as its wheels chewed "Why are you telling all this to me?" The answer to that came to legs, and then you wouldn't need this wheelchair." Ledman scowled, and then and the only way to get them paralyzed below the waist. That I'd never walk again, "You left Earth too quickly," In three centuries the shattered rebuilt. The wreckage world had been completely ruined cities had been hidden it can give as well. Soon after legs. All the survivors of given the necessary replacement limbs free of charge. All except you. You were so sick inexhaustible, the supply of nuclei isn't. After three centuries of heavy consumption, the supply failed. The mighty sorry for him, a pathetic legless figure propped up against of events that led Val and me to end up as a madman's prisoners, "You're a very sick man, Ledman," I said. "All this of being holed up here fifty years' worth of raw stuff to tide us over until then. In a decade or so, our power would to. Millions of starving, freezing in it in the useless shell of of hate starting to topple, the final push. helps. It's a stopgap effort, just to keep things moving over?" starts functioning. Enter the Geig Corps: volunteers out on the face of "Yes—human legs aren't And here we are, I thought. Ledman was sobbing. "Okay, Ledman," I said. "Get your helmet on and let's go. Between the psychs and the prosthetics men, you'll be a new man inside of a year." Ledman." He herded us off to "That's right. And you'll be 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 "But I'm a murderer!" Ledman." I turned to Val. a few words keyed to his dried-up mask. He was a man Ledman had caught us, I remembered voice, and motioned us inside She lifted the geiger harnesses, and I put Ledman back in his wheelchair. Val slipped her oxymask know the whole story," he

<question>:
What likely happens to Ledman after the story ends?

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A He is given new legs and can start a new life
B He will rejoin the search for uranium
C Even with his wheelchair he must receive mental health treatment
D He will undergo physical and mental health care before starting over

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D