After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 864

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.

The luxury villas were two residential modules combined, so their cellars were larger than most at 120 square meters.

However, he lived with his entire team in there. While it was a lot cooler than above, it still wasn’t comfortable and it felt cramped, primarily due to body heat.

"Brenda… my Brenda…" Troy continued to mumble, earning several more groans around him.

"Yes, go move in with her then," Fred said, wanting to physically kick him out but he felt too weak. He turned to the others, "Anyone else with girlfriends with their own cellars?"

"..."

"Shit. Someone murder him up already!"

And so on…

Of course, not everyone could afford residences with its own cellar.

There were also plenty among the masses who stayed in the newly dug and lined tunnels, including those who lived in dormitories and midrise buildings. After all, there were too many residents there to use the cellars, let alone those were used as storage for the buildings themselves.

There were also the goblins there with them. Speaking of the goblins, they had experienced much worse without protection so they didn’t have any problems. On the contrary, they were extremely comfortable.

They also had smaller bodies and emitted much less body heat than others, so there was that. Similarly, the aborigines like Mauin had been through worse, and staying in a cramped cellar was heaven.

The last extreme wave was about four years prior. So many people died in their village back then. Although everyone had stronger physiques in this world, many of the aged villagers and many young children still perished, unable to handle the heat. When the extreme cold happened a little over a year later, even more people died.

So now, they didn’t even feel the stuffiness the Terrans felt. They just felt cool and nice. It was all in perspective.

Outside the houses and cellars, activities had been greatly reduced to almost null. However, there were still some creative minds that saw business opportunities in the disaster.

Some knew how to make cool treats and lived off of those. However, they would melt when taken outside the houses so they could only be consumed inside the ’stores’ or in cellars, and it was almost like there were secret drug deals going on.

Hence, there would also be some brave souls who would travel across the street to buy the treats.

Of course, most people would only come out during dusk or dawn when the sun was weaker (still with paper umbrellas and with ice packs on hand) because going outside at any other time could literally burn their skins!