Obviously, the person who sent this mysterious message was exactly the one marked at the signature, D.
After he successfully captured those innocent living beings and locked them in a sealed space as hostages.
D did not carry out the next step of his plan, but fell into long, deep thought.
Using those innocent beings as hostages would undoubtedly give him absolute speaking power and overwhelming advantage when facing Xu Yuan.
However, he knew very clearly that even if this revenge action succeeded completely, it would only slightly release the blazing anger he had held back for many years.
Obviously, this was only the tip of the iceberg in D's plan, just the very first step of a long journey.
For a long time, he had been trapped in that endless void, with loneliness constantly eating away at his mind.
Even so, he had never reflected on his own mistakes, and from beginning to end he firmly believed he had done nothing wrong.
He used every possible method and exhausted all his strength before finally returning to the main world.
At this moment, revenge was actually only a secondary task for him.
What truly mattered was that he longed to sit once again on the throne of the Creator God, to stand at the top of the world again and look down on all living beings.
If he could not stand at the top of the world, if he could not control this world, then what difference would there be between him and those beings who had gained awareness?
With D's personality, he absolutely could not tolerate being the same as those beings he once despised and played with.
So no matter what the final outcome of this revenge war would be, he knew very clearly that sooner or later he would have to face Notch.
Now he had completely broken ties with J and turned against him.
And J had already seen through him and held all the hidden truths behind everything.
Although D wished he could kill J immediately, he simply did not have the ability to do so.
J was like a powerful time bomb. Even if temporarily buried and hidden, one day it would explode loudly and bring unpredictable serious consequences.
When all the truth finally came out, could Notch really tolerate him just because of those so called "past feelings"?
D understood Notch very well. Notch was far more rational than J. Although Notch valued friendship, he would not be controlled by it.
So he clearly understood that once Notch knew the whole truth, Notch would definitely not stand on his side.
Because of this, how to deal with Notch became a crucial part of D's entire plan.
Looking back to when he had not fully materialized yet, D once planned to hide the real situation, make up some false stories, and then play the emotional card to fool Notch.
After all, at that time Notch had already lost all memories of what happened before, and the only ones who knew those inside details were J and the real HIM.
Not only that, at that time Notch had just started contacting this game world. His involvement was still shallow, and he had not deeply explored or investigated it.
Therefore, as long as D could get J on his side or eliminate J, then the lies he carefully created would have a very high chance of never being exposed.
Unfortunately, all these plans of his turned completely useless the moment Notch stepped into the trial grounds.
D knew very clearly who created this mysterious trial grounds.
Although he did not know the real HIM's purpose for creating the trial grounds, one thing was certain, Notch had already entered the trial grounds, and that was an undeniable fact.
Of course D would not naively think the real HIM would not try to contact Notch.
He really wanted to know what had happened inside the trial grounds, but even with part of Notch's abilities, he still could not investigate the internal situation there.
What he did not expect even more was that the group of iron golems he had previously sent into the trial grounds had actually survived stubbornly until now, and had never stepped out of that forbidden area.
When D sent them to the trial grounds back then, he only intended them to act as troublemakers and had no other arrangements.
He originally thought it would already be very good if the iron golems could survive until the middle stage of the trial, but unexpectedly they lasted until the end and still had not left the trial grounds.
Because of this, D's plan to get information about the trial grounds through them also failed completely.
So after D completed his materialization and properly handled matters related to J and the hostages, he immediately teleported to the area where the trial grounds were located.
However, as the saying goes, things did not go his way. When he finally arrived, the scene before him left him very disappointed.
The entire sky above the trial grounds was tightly covered by thick clouds that seemed impossible to disperse. At a glance, there was only endless whiteness and nothing else could be seen.
He was not curious about the trial grounds themselves. The only thing he wanted to know was how much Notch already knew.
Just when D tried several times to investigate the trial grounds without success, his eyes were suddenly flashed by a beam of light.
He saw a bald player suddenly appear in the trial grounds area. That light was sunlight reflecting off that round shiny bald head.
Because D was standing at a higher place, he only casually glanced a few times at the bald player below and did not pay attention to the face.
At first, D naively thought the trial had ended, and this bald player might be the first one to leave the trial grounds.
However, as time passed, no one else appeared around.
At that moment, D's gaze casually swept over the bald player standing quietly again. Instantly, he froze as if struck by lightning.
Because he clearly saw the ID above that bald player's head, Notch.
At that moment, D felt his heart suddenly sink as if falling into a bottomless abyss. A kind of indescribable panic surged up, making him lose composure for a while.
After quite some time, he took several deep breaths, trying to calm the emotions surging inside him.
Once his mood stabilized a bit, D gathered his courage and looked at that bald player again. This time he did not focus on the shiny bald head, but looked at the face.
The first thing he saw was a thick beard covering the face like wild grass.
The beard grew freely, almost covering most of the face.
Even so, when D carefully examined the facial features through that messy hair, he could not help but take a sharp breath.
Those deep eyes like the sea, that high nose bridge like a mountain, and the slightly raised corner of the mouth, every detail was so familiar and shocking.
"Notch..." D could not help murmuring softly, his voice so light it seemed only he could hear it.
"It really is you..."