The Hunchbacked Old Man at the End of the World

The leaden clouds weighed down the abandoned city and made it suffocating. The rusty iron door of the boiler room of the steel factory was banged by the cold wind, making a "clang" sound like the last cough of a dying person. Old Chen's body was hunched over, and his back was bent into a deep groove - not because of the years, but because he was hit by a steel-armored rat in the third month of the last days and his spine was broken. There was no cure, so he became hunchbacked.