The pursuit of the monsters, naturally, cannot be ignored by those NPCs. However, when those NPCs dispersed to prepare for the onslaught of the puppet maker and the group of monsters, it was the overwhelming strength of the puppet maker and the rest of the BOSSes that eventually led to the deaths of the detached NPCs at the hands of the monsters, without the intended effect of slowing down the enemy advance. Thus, in the face of the monsters' relentless pursuit, those NPCs had no choice but to flee.