The population of Hope Village was still more than 100 people. Before going to the sea, the ratio of males to females was 3 to 7, and there were more girls and fewer males.

At that time, men were the main fighting force, and naturally, none of them had the time to think about love or building families.

However, after going out to the sea and bringing back people from the Tundra Fleet, the ratio of males and females was reversed to 7 to 3.

This was the result of Su Mo’s insistence during the talent selection.

After all, the wasteland in the early stages was too complicated, and most women did not have the physical advantage to survive the beginning stages.

When the Tundra Fleet gathered, the ratio of males to females was extremely unbalanced and was 9 to 1.

No matter how Su Mo selected people, he could never maintain the numbers at a 73 to 64, which seemed like a much healthier ratio.

It was not until the people from both sides gathered and combined into one.

Afterward, they came to the New World together, got through the most difficult early stages, and gradually entered a stable development period.

Their lives were gradually enriched, and the people began to have expectations of a better future.

The men wanted to find a virtuous woman to manage household affairs. The two of them could work to live daily and gradually build their own family in the wasteland to spread their branches and leaves.

Women sought the security of broad shoulders to talk about their inner anguish so they could live without worrying every day, fearing for today and tomorrow.

Their needs complemented each other.

It had only been half a month, and after several meetings but there were more than 100 pairs formed the village.

Additionally, more than 30 couples had reached the stage of wanting to get married.

These people had no personal residence due to the disaster. Otherwise, they would have likely started living together and established families in the village.

“Shelter leader, not only do they want to invite you as a witness, even I would like to invite you as one, but unfortunately, no woman wants me…”

The driver of the vehicle, Wang Hei, turned his head and finally said something that had been holding in his heart for a while. It made the whole car burst into laughter.

Wang Hei had extremely outstanding driving skills. He not only held an A1A2 in the civilized era but also had a special vehicle driving license. He could entirely rely on driving vehicles to earn himself a living.

However, in other aspects…

It was obvious that he was a man in his thirties and in his prime. His whole body was as dark as charcoal. The long driving fatigue had made his appearance look like a man in his forties.

Additionally, he was very honest, introverted, and loved staying at home…

The qualities of a single man were basically all accumulated in him.

“What’re you worried about? As long as you work hard, many new people will likely join our territory after the winter.

“When the time comes, regardless of whether it works or not, the chances will always be higher than those who join a little later, right?”

Su Mo’s eyes swept across the people in the car who had expectant expressions and smiled as he comforted him.

It was human nature to want to build a family.

It was not bad that the territory residents were thinking about such things in the doomsday wasteland. It was a recognition of their territory lord and acknowledgment of their territory.

The more families established in the territory would lead to an increase in love for their territory, which would make them much easier to manage.

As for marriage…

“Work hard now, and maybe it’ll come very soon?”

Su Mo gave an ambiguous promise and got out of the car.

However, the few people who were in the car almost jumped up with excitement. They saluted and shouted “thank you” to the shelter leader.

The sound traveled far.

Ai Jianfeng, still sitting in the hut in front of the energy stone mine, stuck his head out curiously.

“What’s up? Do you want to find a partner too?” Su Mo jokingly said as he approached.

It was unclear whether the cyborg body from the disguised mark would have a reproductive system like an average body.

Su Mo was very curious about it.

He had plans to be a matchmaker immediately if Ai Jianfeng agreed.

Such a wild suggestion frightened Ai Jianfeng, so he immediately shrunk his neck and waved his hands repeatedly.

“No, no, no! Don’t look at me! I’m a very determined scientist! I don’t want a woman to control me for the rest of my life!”

“Haha! You must be frightened of being strictly controlled by your wife in the past to be so afraid of the mere thought of it!”

Another person’s hearty laughter sounded. It was Lu Kuan’s voice that came from behind.

Being teased by the two of them, Ai Jianfeng helplessly shrugged his shoulders, obviously not wanting to recall the dark history of the past, and turned quickly changed the topic.

“Su Mo! Come in! We’ve made new discoveries regarding the all-terrain climbing vehicle!”

“Oh?”

Su Mo smiled when the topic was brought up and immediately opened the door to enter the room.

In the center of the room, a small climbing car was made by a few people yesterday according to the blueprints, and every detail was restored as much as possible.

There were not enough high-level materials for the climbing car, so the material used for the current car structure was replaced by the most basic iron frame, which was made to replicate the basic stress model.

However, something was different from when he had left the night before.

At the rear of the current car structure, a mysterious and abnormal black device in the shape of a cube with a length and width of 50 centimeters had been built, replacing the previous diesel single-cylinder engine.

“This is… an energy stone extractor?

“You guys installed it on the car?”

After just squatting down and taking a few glances, Su Mo could identify the item in a glance.

It was the miniature version of the impressive energy stone barrier above the underground shelter.

“Yes, the engine we removed from the rotary tiller was noisy and had very weak horsepower. It also kept malfunctioning which obviously was not the best choice.