No response when ping with NIC disabled

Send() does not respond when the working PC has an IP address of 192.168.10.10 and the NIC is disabled. When the NIC is enabled, it responds with the specified timeout value.
Is this behavior correct?
If correct, how do I return control from Send()?
There is no connection to the ping destination "172.17.10.20".

using System.Net.NetworkInformation;

Ping sender = new Ping();
sender.Send("172.17.10.20", 1*1000); // If you disable nic from this function, you will not get a response

environment:

• Windows 10 64bit
• Visual Studio 2017
• C#

Thank you for your cooperation.