Xia Fan met the sly man Griffin one more time before he boarded the ship. He seemed to be the one in charge of this operation and holding a fairly high position within Murder Shrine, seeing as he was standing outside the black cargo ship barking out orders to the others as they went about their work.
What was meant by work was doing a complete examination of every warrior boarding the ship, getting them to strip naked and using a handheld scanner to inspect each of them. That was to prevent any of them from carrying a hidden communication device implanted in their bodies. Their luggage was also opened, and everything tossed to the ground. The inspectors wore gloves and went through what was inside very thoroughly.