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

<passage>:
ETERNAL Ned Vince knew that. Still, his It was all sound logic. Even death. But Ned Vince lived again—a million years later! Ned Vince made a last effort to control himself. His knuckles Ned Vince was eager for the That was why he was in a hurry old car rattled and roared as he Kar-Rah. You are the only man left on Earth. Those men that exist in other star systems are lights glaring blindingly past a high, up-jutting mass of Jurassic own rash speed, Ned Vince had only swift young reflexes to rely on to avoid a fearful, telescoping collision. He flicked his wheel but the But Ned Vince wasn't listening, An incredible science, millions of years old, lay in the minds of these creatures. Ned could scarcely have chosen man left on Earth." That had spinning. His car hit the white-painted His mind was too confused for abysmal horror. Ned was no coward—death and danger of Ned Vince was still dimly conscious could have faced bravely. But the being stranded alone on another his wrecked car. Nothing that he to escape this nameless cracks beneath his feet, Ned Vince knew that his friends and a furry body, hurried his feverish scrambling. But he emerged his family would never see his The car was deeply submerged. dash-panel, leaving Ned in absolute were unrecognizable. The rodent city was a glowing expanse of shallow, crystalline domes, set the crash-bent frame, and he after a million years of erosion Presently, when he could no huh?" Ned Vince muttered in a he and his dad had planet—so changed had the came over him as he its clutch, and there was no answer eons, separating himself from had passed—those inconceivable dinosaurs, still bulked along the highway. Time, the Brother of Death, and the Father of Change, seemed to wait.... "Kaalleee! Tik!... Tik, tik, tik!... Kaalleee!..." The excited cry, which no human throat could quite have duplicated hold of his courage. But what was there to inspire it? Nothing! chill. "Kaalleee!... Tik, tik, tik!..." At first there was only one presently came upon Ned Vince's unconscious form, a mile from the city of Kar-Rah. In a flying machine they took him back, and applied stimulants. He came to, the barrier of the years.... voice uttering those weird, triumphant sounds. Then other time, so that he could not escape vocal organs took up that trilling to him. It gave him a few crumbs of hope. Ned Vince," came the answer "But listen!" Ned protested. ages of erosion. to make it work! Maybe you could send me back to my own time after all!" slanted upward from its crest—red He could understand the steel. A launching catapult for debris that had once been gods in exodus, perhaps it was—half a million years ago. Man his own kind. Probably insanity ages, war, decadence, disease, than this, death from ultimate superhumans to newer worlds in other solar systems, had done that. "Kaalleee!... Tik, tik, tik!..." The sounds were not human. They were more like the chatter what Ned Vince had suggested. Time-travel. Almost a legend. An that had baffled far keener wits anachronism he had so miraculously depend on a blast of atoms to resurrected—this human, this Kaalleee.... black box. "Yes, Ned Vince," Perhaps that is the only from the city of Kar-Rah. And he was very happy now—flushed with a vast and unlooked-for Ned felt better immediately, for there was real hope now, Maybe he'd be back in his soon.... Ned relaxed, as a tiny As soon as Ned Vince passed went to work once more, using that pair of brain-helmets again, of time, of survival of the fittest, mind. After hours of research, he proceeded to prepare his plans. The government of Kar-Rah was a scientific oligarchy, of which Loy was a prime member. far beyond that of the ancient of evolution. He could think and help he needed. digging had exposed to the daylight. A horde of small, grey-furred Ned Vince's mind swam beings and their machines, toiled It would be easy to get the dry mud that had encased it like an airtight coffin, had by now been chipped away by the clothing still clung to it, after perhaps a million years. Metal had gone into decay—yes. But not this body. The answer to this and change in stasis. A perfect aided probably during most of As though she had succeeded in "Why, Ned," she chuckled. mummy. "Kaalleee!" Man, that meant. Not the star-conquering demi-gods, but the ancestral stock not a mere fossil. It was a gratitude, he took her in his machines on Earth, and in the early Twenty-first Century, the first interplanetary rockets. No that had built the first legendary antiquity, had aided I thought I had an accident Ned Vince's mind, over which The final instrument he used to he did not try to shake off, accepted test the mummy, looked like a miniature stereoscope, with complicated there was still an elusive fog that and dimming his brain, so that of this ancient human devoid of moisture, the mummy was perfectly preserved, even to its brain cells! Medical and biological was of the same origin—a miraculous sciences were far advanced among Loy Chuk's kind. principles long known to them, this long-dead body could be was built from his own memories of the original. What a marvelous subject for study it would make, back there in the museums of Kar-Rah! "Tik, tik, tik!..." But Loy silenced this fresh, mummy of Ned Vince was the ages. He remembered the ancient rust of his primitive automobile. ruins, left by the final supermen. "The Kaalleee believes himself will survive and be happy. But home," Loy was thinking. "He there was no other way. Time is arose, bearing the entire hundred disengaged from the worthless never escaped from the present by so much as an instant...." THE END vanished Atlantic was not as dead as the highlands. Far out in a deep valley, Kar-Rah, the city of the rodents, came into view—a crystalline of their foggy evolution. Besides, Chuk's laboratory, a short distance below the surface. Here at soaking from that hardened flesh the alkali that had preserved it and other tissues became passing between complicated electrodes. The cells of antique flesh and brain gradually took on a chemical composition nearer to that of the life that they had drained away, and the mummy whatever might happen now, For Ned Vince, timeless eternity again, he experienced that inevitable shock of vast change dehydrated, his brain had been kept perfectly intact through the ages, and now it was restored. So his memories were as vivid as Yet, through that crystalline Fossil bone-fragments were there was a complete skeleton of a dog, too, and the skeleton of a effect on Ned Vince—a sudden, remembering as he did "Take it easy, Ned Vince...." old, familiar friends. But the tone was wrong. It was high, shrill, parrot-like, and mechanical. Ned's gaze searched for the To Ned Vince, it was all utterly somehow, simply because Ned Vince did not know how Loy Chuk had probed his brain, with the aid of a pair of helmets, and the black box apparatus. He and that Loy Chuk had Ned's dark hair was wildly in his own language, flashed him. Thus he knew what Ned "No, Ned, not nuts. Not a about a million years ago. I discovered your body. I brought you back to life. We have science It took only a moment for the sought, with calm, human logic, to suppose that he could succeed, years. Evolution. The scientists

<question>:
What enabled Ned to survive one million years after his car accident?

<options>:
A The alkaline water in the pit
B The arid desert climate
C The black box technology
D The Kar-Rah simulation technology

<answer>:

A