[ WP ] Use `` hyper realistic blood '' in the best way you can .

Cedric sorted through the list of messages on his PAD. All five-hundred-and-ninety-two of them. All marked urgent. 
 
 Most of them were the usual drek. `` My house was robbed by immigrants,'' one read. `` A clone stole my identity,'' read another. `` Bioroids are cracking my data streams,'' from a third. Typical stuff. Old people, who were used to who things were, and did n't understand that the LAPD had stopped pretending to give a shit. When at least a hundred people are murdered each week, there's just not enough manpower to respond to petty robbery, or breaking and entering complaints. 
 
 Cedric slid back in the chair and massaged his temples, `` You find anything interesting over there, Ash?'' 
 
 `` Out of the four-hundred-and-eighty-eight messages in my inbox, three of them appear to be worth investigating,'' The bioroid responded. 
 
 `` Really? That many?'' 
 
 `` All three of them are in relation to the same case, but I believe that case is worth investigating, so technically, there are three messages worth responding to.'' 
 
 Cedric chuckled, `` fair enough. What's the case?'' 
 
 Ash pressed a few buttons, and the messages projected themselves on the wall. `` They all are in relation to a new re-active company, calling themselves Zaroff industries, that's promising their customers the ability to murder anyone they like, in vivid detail. I've sent the company's site to your PAD, if you're interested.'' 
 
 `` I am,'' Cedric murmured, glancing at the information. 
 
 The website was pretty barren, except for a small list of'features' offered by the company, and contact information. Some of the listed features included, `` top of the line survival-instinct AI,'' `` detailed facial mapping,'' and `` hyper realistic blood.'' 
 
 `` I'll give you that it's a little ghoulish, but it's hardly illegal. What are the complaints about?'' Cedric asked, without looking up. 
 
 `` That's where it gets interesting. We have video testimony from a Mr. Spet, Civ-ID 1493197979612, which claims that -- I think it'd be best if we just watch it.'' Ash pressed a few more buttons, and the disheveled face of a man in his mid thirties appeared on the screen. 
 
 `` Hello, my name is Harold Spek, and I swear that the testimony I'm about to present is, to the best of my knowledge, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 
 
 On the evening of July 12, 2103, I visited Zaroff industries, and took part in one of their re-actives. I was curious what it'd be like to kill someone, and... I guess that's not relevant. The scenario I'd selected, was one where I'd stalk, and then murder a homeless man with a large knife. 
 
 The scenario went well, until I got to the actual kill part. When I saw the guy's face, I recognized it. It was one of the homeless guys who hung out on a corner a few blocks away from my container. I mean I'd never talked to the guy before, but I'd seen him enough to recognize his face. 
 
 Well, after the... murder, I left'his' body in a dumpster off 942nd. After the scenario finished, I ran as quickly as I could to the actual dumpster and I found the body inside, same position I left him in, knife wound in the same spot. I immediately took video of the guy, which I've attached, along with a recording of my re-active. 
 
 I do n't know what else to do, I mean I never would have gone there if I'd know --'' 
 
 Ashe turned the video off, `` he continues babbling like this for another twenty-eight minutes.'' 
 
 `` Have you reviewed the records?'' Cedric asked. 
 
 `` My computer's been analyzing them since we accepted the case.'' 
 
 `` And...?'' 
 
 `` Judging by the blood splatters, and the nature of the wounds, in question, there's a 92 % chance that these recordings depict the same crime scene.'' 
 
 `` So Zaroff industries is killing people, and selling live footage of their deaths as re-actives?'' 
 
 `` It would appear so.'' 
 
 `` That would explain their twenty-five trillion dollar payment to the city permit office.'' 
 
 `` I do n't follow.'' 
 
 `` Well, while you were analyzing the footage, I've been tracking their expenses, trying to figure out where their money's been going. And, in addition to their standard business license, there's an additional twenty-five trillion going to the permit office. Which means one of two things, either they want to found their own sovereign nation, or they need a Class D Murder License. That would also explain why they've dedicated so little money to R & D, and machine upkeep --'' 
 
 `` So rather than actually running the simulations, they've been piping the guy's camera feed back to the room, and calling it a re-active.'' 
 
 `` Precisely. Now all we need to do is make sure they actually purchased the license,'' Cedric said, leaning back in his chair. 
 
 `` I'm putting the records on the screen as we speak.'' 
 
 After a few minutes of searching they found proof that Zaroff had purchased a license, making any murders they would commit for the next year, perfectly legal. 
 
 
 All in a day's work.
