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Seeing Chen Duo's serious expression, Zhou Fengliu fell silent.

He felt that he couldn't beat around the bush when talking to Chen Duo, which was similar to the "witty" Bao'er.

Chen Duo's mind couldn't quite grasp that, and she might very well take one of the polite remarks to heart and take it seriously...

Regarding what he just said, was the focus on "the other price"? Clearly, the focus is on the fact that he doesn't offer late-night chats...

"Fine... whatever you want. What was your question again?" Zhou Fengliu didn't want to talk to Chen Duo about anything else, lest the conversation drift further off-topic.

"What...do I really need?"

Hearing Chen Duo's question, Zhou Fengliu paused for two seconds, then, without much thought, replied in a perfunctory manner:

Only you know what you need.

"But I don't know that right now."

Faced with Chen Duo's "I don't know," Zhou Fengliu paused for a few seconds, pondered for a moment, and then realized that the answer Chen Duo wanted to hear was not the right to choose, but something else.

The concepts of wanting and needing are different.

Wanting is a subjective desire, while needing is an objective necessity.

What Chen Duo really wanted to ask at that moment was what she objectively needed, not what she wanted...

After figuring out the intricacies of the situation, Zhou Fengliu looked at Chen Duo with some surprise.

He felt that this was a question that Chen Duo shouldn't be able to recognize at this point. Considering that Chen Duo had sought his help late at night, it wasn't hard to guess that someone had spoken to Chen Duo about something.

On the other hand, how should he give Chen Duo a specific answer to this question?

Zhou Fengliu was somewhat troubled by this.

It is important to understand that people's objective needs are always changing; they are not fixed. Generally speaking, the levels of objective needs of an individual can be divided into five categories.

First, physiological needs.

This need is the easiest to understand: food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are the key to sustaining life and belong to the most basic material needs.

Second, security requirements.

Safety needs include physical safety, housing, finances, etc., and are considered guarantees for survival.

Third, social needs.

Social needs are the needs for human interaction, which includes many aspects such as friendship, love, a sense of belonging, and social recognition.

Fourth, respect needs.

The need for respect is the need for self-esteem and respect for others, which gradually rises from material needs such as food, clothing, shelter, and safety to the spiritual level.

Fifth, the need for self-actualization.

The need for self-actualization rises to a higher spiritual level than the need for esteem, encompassing self-awareness, personality development, and self-actualization...

Applying these categories of needs to Chen Duo reveals that... Chen Duo's objective human needs, both material and spiritual, have not been met.

Physiologically, Chen Duo was covered in Gu poison and could die at any moment.

There is no guarantee of safety.

Chen Duo doesn't have many friends in her social life.

As for the spiritual level, needless to say, if the company and Liao Zhong had been able to respect Chen Duo's needs, Chen Duo wouldn't be so eager to make a choice.

Zhou Fengliu thought for a moment, then glanced at Chen Duo a couple more times.

Rather than asking him what she truly needed, it was more accurate to say that Chen Duo was feeling lost and afraid because her objective needs had never been met.

Having figured this out, Zhou Fengliu changed his approach and asked Chen Duo:

"Chen Duo, in what capacity are you asking this question? What do you really need?"

"Gu? Or a person?"

Chen Duo was slightly taken aback by Zhou Fengliu's question.

"I am a Gu..."

She answered almost instinctively.

From her time at the Medicine Immortal Society to now... her identity as a Gu has always been imprinted in her heart.

“You are a Gu… then you shouldn’t be thinking about this question. Since you’re already a Gu, then you should fulfill your duties as a Gu.”

"But if you are asking this from a human perspective, I can only tell you that human needs are far too complex, and the needs are different at each stage."

"Some people have spent most of their lives hiding, and they need to live in this world with dignity."

"Some people need money to empower themselves and ensure their sense of security so that they are not bullied by others."

"Some people need to break free from their inner constraints and, like ordinary people, appreciate the beauty of the world's mountains and rivers, enjoy delicious food, and savor life."

"What I want to tell you is that everyone's needs are different, and you can only explore them slowly on your own. It's not that if I tell you what you need, you will actually need it."

"After saying all that... the choice is still in your hands. You need to think for yourself, but no matter what you choose or how you satisfy your needs, there is a necessary premise."

"That is to live... Only when you are alive do you have the opportunity to choose. When you die, you have nothing. Don't live such a twisted life."

When the word "awkward" came up, Zhou Fengliu suddenly thought of the Jade Immortal from the Celestial Master's Mansion.

They're all a bunch of twisted characters.

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P.S.: I'm begging for everything, please! This humble author is online, sobbing. It's really unlucky of me; I went out and got all bruised and battered, and I'm still writing this while injured.

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He elaborated on Chen Duo's question, saying a lot, and gave Chen Duo a very clear answer.

Right now, Chen Duo's primary concern is simply to ensure her own survival before she can even consider other miscellaneous things.

Although Chen Duo is currently Zhou Fengliu's body-refining accelerator, she is indeed more promising than Chen Duo at this stage in the original work.

As long as she continues to cultivate the Reversal of Heavenly Gang, it won't be difficult for her to completely suppress the primordial Gu poison.

Of course.

For Chen Duo, what Zhou Fengliu was saying was a bit difficult to understand; she could only make out a few sentences:

Are you human or a Gu?

The choice is yours.

Live like a human being, see the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, enjoy delicious food, and enjoy life.

And no matter what choices you make or how you satisfy your needs, there is always a prerequisite of being alive. Only when you are alive do you have the opportunity to choose; when you are dead, you have nothing.

These few words were enough to make Chen Duo's mind race.

After a long time.

Chen Duo seemed to have figured something out and asked Zhou Fengliu:

"Can this world... really accept me?"

When Zhou Fengliu heard Chen Duo's question, he knew that Chen Duo had a more concrete understanding of what she needed.

To be accepted by the world?

Zhou Fengliu felt this word was inaccurate, and after a two-second silence, he slowly corrected it:

"It's not about whether the world can accept you, but whether you can accept the world."

One accepts, the other receives.

A single word can change a lot.

One is a plea for someone to include me, an oddball, as if it were charity; the other is a subjective sense of relief: whether you accept me or not, I don't care about this world anymore. Whether you accept me or not, I don't care. It's all about attitude.

Whether Chen Duo is a stranger or a local in this world today depends on this one word.

Hearing Zhou Fengliu's words, Chen Duo remained calm. She asked herself, as if talking to herself, "Can I do it?"

Faced with Chen Duo's question, Zhou Fengliu pondered for a moment, then quoted a saying that the Old Celestial Master had once said:

"It's not about whether you can do it, but whether you want to do it. An old senior once said: 'The road you want to take is not easy to walk, and the person you want to be is not easy to be.' Everyone feels that they have no choice but to do it... But in reality? If you don't follow your heart, how can you follow your body?"

"..."

Chen Duo fell silent upon hearing this.

You could tell from her expression.

Zhou Fengliu's words just now will take her a very long time to process.

However, there was one thing she understood: only when you're alive do you have choices; when you're dead, you have nothing.

Seeing that Chen Duo remained silent for a while, Zhou Fengliu yawned and then asked, "Any other questions? If not, I'm going to sleep."

Chen Duo snapped out of her daze upon hearing the sound, her emerald green eyes turning to Zhou Fengliu before she shook her head.

"Um..."

Chen Duo turned to leave, but just before opening the door, she seemed to remember something and turned back to Zhou Fengliu, saying: