The other people in the territory were also doing what they could to cool down. Most people stayed in their cellars, converting it into a den of sorts. They would go out at night to breathe some air but, otherwise, they could only be depressed underground.
"I feel like I'm in a coffin…" Fred said as he laid down in the underground room, feeling like a canned tuna.
"Yeah, with other smelly men," Troy mumbled. "I miss my Brenda…"
He was mumbling so deliriously that his teammates knew the heat melted his brain a bit. He continued whispering sweet nothings to the woman who wasn't there and it irked a lot of people who were already hot-headed as it was.
"Ugh…"
"Shut up!"
"Someone slobber him with a pillow PLEASE!"
After the success of the business, Fred bought the team a luxury villa after getting good payment terms. He took almost his entire liquid funds for the down payment, but he knew they had to get it before the extreme heat.
