If Chen Ke didn't guess wrong, then that little boy must have been Conrad's son, and he must have been dead for a long time.
And the worst of it was surely not just that, his wife was likely in considerable danger, too.
And how did they die? Chen Ke looked at the weeping Conrad and had pieced together an answer in his mind.
After returning from the Gulf War, Conrad developed PTSD, a disorder that made his personality unpredictable.
Whatever happened over the years, in the end, during an episode, Conrad did something terrible to his own wife and son.
This was also why Conrad became a smuggler of Holy Relics, as he was evading the pursuit of the United Federation.
The most interesting part wasn't just this… but this sea, Chen Ke finally began to understand why the Administration Bureau had quarantined this sea.
