Lille wasn't quite sure what Tony's personal assistant was here to do, but he had a more urgent matter at hand:
Net surveillance had sent David to investigate an agent they'd tracked in Evil Land, and it needed to be dealt with now.
David's car had broken down in the first stretch of the extreme metal race track, about thirty kilometers from Night City. They had encountered a sandstorm and likely hunkered down in an abandoned building on the spot.
So they should still be on Evil Land, which is why Blais suggested that net surveillance commission David: in a sense, he was a known quantity, and... they had some fame among the mercenaries, at least they weren't greenhorns.
Evil Land was quite far from the nuclear blast site, so the instantaneous, high-intensity electromagnetic pulse would be diminished with distance, leaving only the geomagnetic disturbances caused by high-energy particle streams, which were also mitigated by the dust storms in Evil Land.
