From the toy soldier's condition, Zhao Xun quickly realized what had happened.
Before this, the toy soldier must have encountered another player, who had triggered and accepted his quest.
But that player had ultimately failed.
Since one player had already accepted his quest, other players could no longer trigger it.
And because the player who accepted the quest had failed, the toy soldier had entered a drifting state.
In this drifting state, the toy soldier might not even know who he was, leaving him unable to offer his quest to other players.
Once he figured this out, Zhao Xun immediately turned into a falcon and flew onward.
An NPC whose quest could not be triggered was useless to him.
Naturally, he would not waste time on a useless NPC.
The gust from Zhao Xun's takeoff knocked the toy soldier to the ground, but he did not get up. Instead, he lay blankly in the grass, gazing through the gaps between leaves and branches at the fragmented sky.
He muttered to himself, "What am I supposed to do? What do I want someone to help me with? Why... can't I remember?"
Zhao Xun flew for another hour or so, encountering a player along the way.
The player mistook him for an NPC and chased him for a while.
Fortunately, the falcon was fast and agile, and he soon shook the player off.
Not long after losing the player, Zhao Xun finally encountered an NPC.
It was a woman dressed in an elaborate court gown.
With beautiful, long golden curls, fair skin, and delicate features, she looked unmistakably like a princess or queen from a royal palace.
Plenty of fairy tales featured princesses and queens, so he could not tell which one she was.
Zhao Xun quickly landed and returned to human