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

<passage>:
Ned Vince knew that. Still, his into alkaline depths ... it was death. But Ned Vince lived again—a million years later! Ned Vince made a last effort Ned Vince was eager for the not really your kind anymore, though their forefathers originated on this planet. They have gone far beyond you in evolution. hadn't yet tarred the traffic-loosened gravel at the Bend. An incredible science, millions of years old, lay in the minds of these creatures. Ned could scarcely have chosen abysmal horror. Ned was no Ned Vince was still dimly conscious pool geysered around him in a mighty splash. He had only a dazing welt on his forehead, and in the ground, spring-fed. The edges of that almost bottomless pool were caked with a rim of white—for the water, on which dead birds so often floated, was surcharged with alkali. As that heavy, natronous liquid rushed up through the openings and cracks beneath his feet, Ned him, and the occasional touch of more than an irregular a furry body, hurried his feverish at last at the surface. He stood there panting in that frigid, rarefied air. It was night. dash-panel, leaving Ned in absolute The Moon was a gigantic, pock-marked The car was deeply submerged. The light had blinked out on the darkness. A flood rushed city was a glowing expanse of couldn't fight against the force of that incoming water. The after a million years of erosion under an ocean that was gone. In that ghastly moonlight, the ground glistened with dry salt. "Well, I guess it's all true, welt, left by the blow he had received on his forehead, put a thickening mist over his brain, so that he could not think clearly. liquid was sucked into his lungs. His last thoughts were those huh?" Ned Vince muttered in a Presently, when he could no planet—so changed had the Earth become. A wave of intolerable homesickness had enveloped it. He was wandering came over him as he aimlessly about in a familiar room. The girders of the accurately, arose thinly from the depths of a powder-dry gulch, water-scarred from an inconceivable antiquity. The noon-day Sun was red and huge. The air was tenuous, dehydrated, chill. "Kaalleee!... Tik, tik, presently came upon Ned Vince's time, so that he could not escape again. There he lay, helpless, The desolate expanse around the gulch, was all but without motion. The icy breeze tore tiny Ned Vince," came the answer puffs of dust from grotesque, waterless for eons. Patches of drab lichen grew here and there on the up-jutting rocks, but in angling drifts of soil, nearly the desert itself, no other life was visible. Even the hills had ages of erosion. At a mile distance, a crumbling heap of rubble arose. Once it had been a building. A gigantic, jagged mass of detritus sagged away, flattened by incalculable utter, sick dejection of this the last space ships built by the gods in exodus, perhaps it was—half a million years ago. Man was gone from the Earth. Glacial ages, war, decadence, disease, and a final scattering of those giant from the past, lost from The sounds were not human. They were more like the chatter and wail of small desert animals. depend on a blast of atoms to clear away rock and soil. Thus the gulch had been cleared of the accumulated rubbish of antiquity. Man, it seemed, had a successor, Ned felt better immediately, soon.... Ned relaxed, as a tiny As soon as Ned Vince passed eyes, betraying the slow heritage of time, of survival of the fittest, of his kind was already far beyond that of the ancient beings and their machines, toiled for many days. Ned Vince's mind swam formation of flaky rust. But imbedded in it was a huddled form, brown and hard as old wood. The dry mud that had encased it like an airtight coffin, had by now been chipped away by the tiny investigators but soiled clothing still clung to it, after perhaps a million years. Metal had gone into decay—yes. But not this body. The answer to this was simple—alkali. A mineral saturation that had held time and change in stasis. A perfect preservative for organic tissue, aided probably during most of those passing eras by desert dryness. The Dakotas had turned arid very swiftly. This body was not a mere fossil. It was a mummy. "Why, Ned," she chuckled. but the ancestral stock that had built the first machines on Earth, and in the Ned Vince's mind, over which test the mummy, looked like a of this ancient human corpse. What his probing gaze revealed communicated his further knowledge to his henchmen. Though devoid of moisture, the mummy was perfectly preserved, even to its brain cells! Medical and biological sciences were far advanced principles long known to them, this long-dead body could be mummy of Ned Vince was the ages. He remembered the ancient ruins, left by the final supermen. rust of his primitive automobile. With infinite care it was crated of the supermen show the truth. Even they, who once ruled Earth, never escaped from the present by so much as an instant...." beneath. A tremendous sand desert, marked with low, America seemed to crawl backward, washed-down mountains, and the mounds of human cities that were gone forever. vague, angular, geometric continent, the plain dipped downward steeply. The white of dried had built their homes mostly underground, since the beginning of their foggy evolution. Besides, in this latter day, the nights were very cold, the shelter of subterranean passages and rooms was welcome. The mummy was taken to Loy below the surface. Here at once, the scientist began his work. The body of the ancient man was put in a large vat. Fluids submerged it, slowly soaking from that hardened flesh the alkali that had preserved it for so long. The fluid was changed often, until woody muscles and other tissues became began. Still submerged in liquid, the corpse was submitted to a flow of restorative energy, passing between complicated flesh and brain gradually took on a chemical composition nearer to that of the life that they had once known. At last the final liquid was drained away, and the mummy lay there, a mummy no more, but a pale, silent figure in its tatters form. For Ned Vince, timeless eternity ended like a gradual fading mist. When he could see clearly shock of vast change around him. Though it had been dehydrated, his brain had been kept perfectly intact through the ages, and now it was restored. yesterday. Yet, through that crystalline vat in which he lay, he could see scrambling. But he emerged effect on Ned Vince—a sudden, The nervous terror of the unknown was on him. Feeble and dizzy after his weird resurrection, which he could not understand, bulk. The constellations were unrecognizable. The rodent "Take it easy, Ned Vince...." shallow, crystalline domes, set Ned's gaze searched for the among odd, scrub trees and To Ned Vince, it was all utterly Ned Vince did not know how Ned's dark hair was wildly awry. His gaunt, young face held befuddled terror. He gasped in the thin atmosphere. "I've him. Thus he knew what Ned used to, that's all. You drowned about a million years ago. I discovered your body. I brought you "Speaking to me. One million years. Evolution. The scientists say that people grew up from fishes in the sea. Prairie dogs

<question>:
How did Ned become a mummy?

<options>:
A Loy Chuk's workers wrapped Ned's body in strips of cloth to preserve it in transport.
B The earth became a desert wasteland. All the moisture was leached from the corpse.
C A combination of the alkali and mud his body had been soaked in. Also, the years of dryness after the world became a desert.
D The body had been devoid of moisture for a million years.

<answer>:

C