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Yorker Avenue, was a Chinese man who had been sent from Beijing’s orphanage to an orphanage near Pennsylvania’s border. Years passed and Yorker had grown different from everyone else in an unusual enormous size and muscular strength. He lived alone in an unknown forest where he had built his own house. Yorker's daily life was building houses to shelter poor people and providing them with food from his garden.

Edward Smith was an African man who lived near the border of Pennsylvania with his family. Due to the lack of food and poor conditions, Edward chopped down trees to supply heat in their home and grew crops in the remaining area to have enough food for his family. Despite Edward’s small, short, and flabby body, he had an
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On the other hand, Edward was fast yet was smaller in size and was weaker in strength. Due to his abilities, he had only finished constructing half of a house.

During the second day of competition, Yorker had finished building his second house, while Edward had only completed building one house. Edward walked by Yorker's constructing area and saw great progress. In that moment, he understood that he would not be the winner of the competition. Therefore, he started to think of an obstacle that would prevent Yorker's advancement in the competition.

In the third day of competition, Yorker woke up and directly started building the third house. Meanwhile, Edward was still starting to build the second one, yet he had come up with a plan for Yorker to be eliminated. Edward’s plan was to gather two bricks and throw them at Yorker when he wasn’t paying attention. When Yorker was on top of the third house he had built, Edward immediately threw the first brick targeting at the back of his head. As soon as the brick hit him, Yorker fell

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