Live shrimps fully cooked in the summer heat on the way from the market to the buyer's home in Xinyang, Central China's Henan Province on August 13. Screenshot of Bailu Video

A woman surnamed Fang bought some live shrimps from supermarket as an ingredient of dishes for lunch in Xinyang, Central China's Henan Province on Saturday. When she got home an hour later, she found that the shrimps that had been alive when she bought them all died because of the heat under the sun.

It's incredible that six of them were fully cooked and turned red. Fang said that it was 41 C that day, she had put the bag containing the shrimps on the ground and in the back seat of her electric bicycle. It may be the ground and seat heated by the sun had baked the shrimps. She thought it was so funny and sighed that the weather was unsuitable for going out, and people should just stay in the air-conditioned room.

Some said that although it looked like a tragedy, the shrimps had just been cooked earlier than they would be. Others joked that in this unbearable summer, even drought-tolerant creatures are also likely to be cooked.