Understanding the Horny Mushroom Signals

I just completed my research on the Horny Mushrooms, and... Well, it looks like some of these Horny Mushrooms are tainted. The tainted Horny Mushroom Caps look like this . If you can gather these up, it would really speed up the research. Can you do that for me?

Thank you. I need 20 Tainted Horny Mushroom Caps.

I am sorry. I must be working you too hard. I understand.

Oh! You brought them all! Great, now once I take this and do that, and...

I've been studying the signals that the Horny Mushrooms send to each other and figured out what some of them mean.

'Danger' , 'King Pepe', 'Level 30'

This is still a big mystery to me...

I'm currently studying the Horny Mushrooms...