This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 181 - 136: An Unexpected Gain (Part 2)

In his hometown village, the Guo surname was very common. Although most people didn’t match by generation, they all shared close familial ties.

Guo Qingwen was the only son of a family uncle, someone he used to play with frequently when they were kids.

Despite the years that have passed, Guo Mo has already forgotten what this childhood friend looks like. But the two were indeed real good friends, playing together since they were toddlers without pants. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"Are you Guo Mo? Do you know Yu Hua Primary School? I’m Feng Renyong!"

"Yu Hua Primary School, Feng Renyong?!"

Encountering a childhood friend in the game had already shocked Guo Mo greatly. What he hadn’t expected was that one of his friends was actually an elementary school classmate.

Soon after, the remaining few also revealed their identities.

One was Feng Renyong’s wife’s cousin, and the other was Guo Qingwen’s college classmate...

After all that, they were all acquaintances!

However, all these acquaintances were connected through Guo Mo, the key figure. Without revealing identities, no one had guessed who they were.

"Damn!"

The live streaming audience was stunned.

What kind of mystical matchmaking mechanism is this? None of the game friends Guo Mo added were done actively; they were all automatically assigned by the game system.

Everyone thought they were strangers.

It turned out only after mentioning names and identities did they realize that after all, they were all various acquaintances or connected people.

"Wait a minute!"

Guo Mo invited five friends for a chat, out of which four were somehow related acquaintances, maybe had never met but could still connect.

But why hadn’t this fifth game friend spoken from the start?

"Hey, aren’t you also someone familiar to me or them?"

"No!"

The friend said awkwardly, "I don’t know any of you, the only commonality is my surname is also Guo. I don’t know if that counts as a coincidence?"

"Then it really is a coincidence!"

Knowing that this fifth friend wasn’t someone familiar to Guo Mo or others, Guo Mo and everyone breathed a sigh of relief together.

Luckily!

This is most likely just a coincidence, the matchmaking system couldn’t be so intelligent.

But while everyone continued to chat casually, an unexpected fact emerged.

That this friend with the same surname Guo was actually adopted from the orphanage; his foster father doesn’t have the surname Guo.

"Then it really is a coincidence!"

Guo Qingwen said, "Guo Mo should remember, right? Our village, Guo Dapao’s family lost a child, they couldn’t find him anywhere, by age should be about the same as you..."

"I think something like that did happen."

Guo Mo thought for a moment, in his memory it was indeed something like that. By age, it matched indeed, but could it really be such a coincidence?

"Really? Where is this Guo Dapao you mentioned now? Can you give me his phone number, I’d like to ask him?"

"No problem."

Guo Mo and Guo Qingwen didn’t think much into it, just thinking it’s most likely not the same person, after all separated by thousands of kilometers, how could it be such a coincidence?

But it’s worth a try.

After the previous revelations by the few people, the mystique of the matchmaking system was fully verified, what if it is indeed the same person?

Two days later, Guo Mo informed the audience via live stream that there has been an update to the matter, with an offline meetup scheduled for a parentage test; turns out they might really be the same person.

When the test report came out confirming it was the same person, Guo Mo’s live stream erupted.

This story also spread across the internet.

Countless people were stunned by the mystical matchmaking mechanism of "Love Advisor Department", how could this even match like this?

Soon!

Other players came out in succession to attest that in the game’s matchmaking mechanism, calm on opposite gender, the proportion of same-sex player acquaintances was indeed high.

A player from Hanjiang Province posted on community claiming that through the game "Love Advisor Department", he surprisingly gathered contacts for half of his entire elementary class.

How did he gather them?

He himself had a few elementary school friends, while these few friends also had several other elementary school friends...

This was too unexpected!

Given that a dozen or twenty years had passed, those old playmates and good friends had already scattered all over the country, many connections were lost.

Yet people could still reunite through a game, it was simply a miracle!

"Are there many such examples?"

The cross-province recognition and elementary school class reunion incidents in Guo Mo’s live stream gave Chen Ba new insights into the matchmaking mechanism of "Love Advisor Department".

Yet he also had a doubt.

Could it be these things weren’t an isolated case? It shouldn’t be! The player base was just this small, so there shouldn’t be that many acquaintances!

"There aren’t many, very rare!"

Yang Dong shook his head and explained, "But another phenomenon is quite common, that people from the same unit, company, group, and school are easy to match together."

"???

Chen Ba had a face full of question marks.

What kind of strange mechanism is this; could the system actually identify player’s respective unit, company, group, or school?

What happened to socializing with strangers, how did it all become acquaintances?

"Not all acquaintances...."

Yang Dong thought for a moment and said, "it still follows the logic of matching by compatibility and interests. But is it possible that those who share interests with you are actually nearby?"

If you like playing skateboards, surely you also know the friends around who play them, clearly, you get along well with them, don’t you?

Does that count as acquaintances?

"Then what if I like traveling alone, but I don’t have any friends with the same hobby or interest nearby?" Lu interrupted.

"Then it will match with strangers."

Chen Ba furrowed his brow and explained, "But such case is rare, your conditions are too stringent, how could it be possible there isn’t a single friend nearby with whom you can talk?"

"Then let’s change the viewpoint, I have this friend or acquaintance, but he doesn’t play ’Love Advisor Department’, so I would still match with strangers right?"

"Yes!"

Chen Ba nodded and then said, "I understand your point now! You actually want to say that using ’Love Advisor Department’ to find a partner is kind of an overkill, the real use is to find like-minded individuals?"

Finding a partner is secondary.

The greatest function of the "Love Advisor Department" matchmaking mechanism is to allow players to expand their social circle, meeting more like-minded friends.

And such like-minded friends could be around you, just you haven’t noticed, or simply never thought about it.

The cases exposed online proved one point.

The matchmaking mechanism knows you better than you know yourself, clearly, like-minded friends are nearby, but many haven’t discovered them, instead requiring the matchmaking mechanism to reveal them.

"What do you mean?"

Lu was puzzled, what does it mean that the matchmaking mechanism knows you better than yourself?

"Rather than saying the system matches acquaintances, it is better to say that it matched those that you rarely contact but actually have great potential to be good friends."

Chen Ba explained, "If you hadn’t matched together, would you pay attention to those acquaintances around you whom you know but have little interaction with?"

"No..."

"Then that’s it! The matchmaking mechanism has no issue, it doesn’t prioritize assigning acquaintances."

Chen Ba understood.

This isn’t about intentionally assigning acquaintances, this is evidently an excellent matchmaking mechanism telling you: Seeking him thousands of times and finally turning back, that person is indeed amongst the dim lights!

Guo Mo and Guo Qingwen were acquaintances.

But how many years have they not contacted each other? Who could have imagined they would get along this well? Who could have thought the most compatible friend turned out to be him?

If not for the game "Love Advisor Department," these two would likely never cross paths again.

No doubt, that’s certainly the case.

If not matched together, if not revealing identities, in the coming decades they probably wouldn’t speak even a sentence, not realizing they had missed out on such a perfectly suited mate.

From this perspective, the majority of players like Guo Mo, although haven’t found a partner, aren’t entirely without gains?