The following year, while a Human Civilization battle fleet led by the Zheng He was exploring the Seventh Spiral Arm, it encountered a Sacred Guard Team of the Heavenly Maiden Civilization. In the end, like the Awakeners before them, both sides suffered nearly a 1:1 loss ratio.
Humanity lost more than nine hundred Consciousness-Linked Warships, while the Heavenly Maiden Civilization's thousand-member Sacred Guard Team was completely wiped out.
The Zheng He had been named in commemoration of Zheng He's discovery of the American Continent, giving it special significance. Now that it had been destroyed here by the Heavenly Maiden Civilization, this grudge was firmly established.
Yes, you read that right. Zheng He had discovered the American Continent.
In this Human Civilization, long before the Callisto Era, Huaxia had already found ample evidence proving that Zheng He had indeed reached the Americas and even conducted official exchanges with the indigenous people there. This history had once been brutally destroyed, but with technological advancement and the passage of time, the evidence buried deep underground was eventually uncovered.
The Yongle Emperor's tomb, in particular, provided extensive documentary evidence for this.
It was worth mentioning that the archaeological campaign of those years had uncovered far more than the answer that Zheng He discovered the American Continent. It had also revealed countless records of Ming Dynasty history that had been brutally destroyed or falsified.
For example, the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, which had already been verified in the twenty-first century, was confirmed to have been drawn during the Yongle Era and had nothing to do with Matteo Ricci. Likewise, the steam engine had originally been invented by the Main Ethnic Group, and Zheng He had been the first person to complete a circumnavigation of the globe.
The Main Ethnic Group had long understood that the Earth