Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 221 Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

It will come with a vengeance.

Although Sun Hang didn't know why he was so convinced of this, this sentence was like a stamp of thought, deeply engraved in his mind.

I don't need to look for its trace, I just need to wait here and wait for the moment of the decisive battle to come.

Faintly, Sun Hang seemed to feel a gaze that crossed time and space, coming towards him from somewhere thousands of miles away. He turned his head and was met with a pair of eyes filled with resentment, hatred and madness.

This sight was fleeting, just like a small splash of water caused by a small stone thrown into the long river of time, which was instantly smoothed out by the flow of time.

This line of sight did not belong to the time when Sun Hang was there. It was more like a piece of letter that had been preserved for hundreds of years. The yellowed paper quickly oxidized after coming into contact with the air until it turned into nothingness.

"What's wrong with you?" Yang Qi waved her hand in front of Sun Hang, "Why do you look so absent-minded?"

"Nothing, I was just thinking about something and got distracted." Sun Hang said casually.

"Why do I feel that... ever since you came back from the Nameless Island, I've found it increasingly difficult to see through you?" Yang Qi murmured, as if she was talking to herself or complaining to Sun Hang.

"Could you have seen through me before?"

"At least it's not like it is now." Yang Qi sighed, "There are so many mysteries about you now that I'm too lazy to delve into them... I just want to ask you one question, are you on our side?"

"Which side...is this side?" Sun Hang looked into Yang Qi's eyes and asked seriously.

"Humans." Yang Qi answered with the same seriousness.

"But even within the human race, there are different camps and various disagreements... Throughout human history, from the evolution of Homo erectus to Homo sapiens, and then to Yuri Gagarin of the Siberian Federation as a human who left the Earth, wars have never stopped." Sun Hang said, "In my opinion, humans are just a species, not a camp, and there is no such thing as standing in line."

"If you said this in the past, you would have been sent back to the isolation room for the most detailed and rigorous psychological examination." Yang Qi smiled bitterly, "You'd better not say this kind of thing in public in the future... It will cause a lot of trouble."

"I'm just telling the truth." Sun Hang shrugged. "To be honest, compared to the future fate of mankind, I care more about what to eat tonight."

"Have you had dinner?" Yang Qi asked again.

"As the saying goes, when you are well fed and warm, you will think about your life... Don't look at me like that, I was just joking." Sun Hang laughed, "Actually, I don't have any lofty ambitions. As long as I can have a full stomach and a comfortable bed to sleep in, I don't ask for anything else."

"..."

"According to that pyramid demand theory, I should belong to the lowest level." Sun Hang said self-deprecatingly.

"It's Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory." Yang Qi sighed and said.

"Yes, yes, that's it."

The original model of Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory is a five-layer pyramid. The bottom layer is the most basic physiological needs of human beings, including food, water, air, sleep and sex. The top layers are safety needs, social needs, respect needs and self-realization needs. Social elites like Yang Qi will naturally put the highest level of "self-realization needs" in the most important position; while a salted fish like Sun Hang has only one idea: as long as he is alive, everything else is dispensable and unimportant.

Just stay alive.

It’s a pity that in this terrible era, sometimes even staying alive requires all your strength.

"Aren't you very curious about your life before you lost your memory?" Yang Qi asked.

"Yeah...but what does this have to do with me wanting to lie flat?"

"Maslow's original five-level pyramid model was proposed by him in 4640 of the lunar calendar, and it is also the most widely circulated version among the people. But in fact, by 4667 of the lunar calendar, this model had been refined and expanded into an eight-level pyramid. The past that you pursue and your curiosity about those mysterious events belong to the transition from self-cognition to self-transcendence, and belong to the advanced needs at the top of the pyramid." Yang Qi said.

"Good boy, I didn't even know about this." Sun Hang slapped his forehead and said, "I still suffer from my lack of education."

"In fact, everyone has these high-level needs, but when the low-level needs are not met, the priority of these high-level needs will be lowered."

Yang Qi continued, "For example, a social animal works until he is physically and mentally exhausted every day, and when he returns home he just wants to eat, take a shower and sleep. He doesn't even think about questions like 'Who am I, where did I come from, and where am I going'. He doesn't even plan his future life. He only thinks about how to keep his current job to ensure that he won't be kicked out of the house by the landlord at the end of the month because he can't pay the rent on time."

"...You don't want to cut my supplies, do you?"

"I won't do that and I don't have the power to do that." Yang Qi said unhappily, "In terms of authority level, you are now even above the teacher. I just want to tell you that since people live in this world, they must have some goals that go beyond physiological needs... Otherwise, what's the difference between you and livestock?"

"Otherwise, how do you think the term 'social animal' was invented..." Sun Hang muttered.

Yang Qi was about to refute, but suddenly discovered a problem - Sun Hang seemed to be taking the topic of the conversation in a more off-track direction. Every time she wanted to get the topic back on track, she would be interrupted by this guy in an almost unreasonable manner.

A wave of anger surged up, Yang Qi puffed up her cheeks, and rolled her eyes at Sun Hang: "I'm too lazy to argue with you about this... Get out of here and don't disturb me while I'm working."

"Are you really not coming to my house for dinner?" Sun Hang was not annoyed by Yang Qi's scolding. Instead, he asked with a playful smile, "I'm not lying to you. Zhong Ling's cooking skills are definitely professional level."

"You don't want to be a social slave, but someone has to be one." Yang Qi clapped the tablet in her hand vigorously. "I still have more than 400 documents to process, and the data model related to Night Fury that I just built also needs to be revised. Otherwise, I'll go to your house for dinner, and you stay and work for me?"

"I'm leaving now." Sun Hang clasped his fists towards her and disappeared in front of Yang Qi in an instant.

"This guy..." Yang Qi bit her back teeth lightly and stomped the ground with her heels.

"You are too anxious." The old director's voice sounded at the side.

"Teacher, this is not a question of whether we should be in a hurry or not...it's about him..." Yang Qi frowned, "I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always feel that he seems to be getting farther and farther away from us."

"But he invited you to his house for dinner tonight." The old director suddenly said, "Why refuse?"

(End of this chapter)